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The Mumpsimus — ... this year, and it was a great thrill for me to get to see one of my oldest friends in the writing world, James Patrick Kelly, as guest of honor -- honored so well and appropriately. ...

Live in NYC? Meet Jeff Somers Wednesday night at the KGB Bar!
swivet :: (noun) :: a state of extreme agitation — ... salon at the KGB Bar. He'll be reading with another powerhouse writer, Hugo& Nebula winner James Patrick Kelly. You don't want to miss this one, gang! ...

SF Scene: KGB Fantastic Fiction 8/21/08
Tor.com — As the Tor.com staffer who most habitually goes to speculative fiction events in New York City, I’ve been planning on covering them in some manner, but I’ve been wary about how to do so without painting a scene-y and insular portrait with nothing to offer those of you following at home. The tactic I’ve decided to try out is to ask everyone I get a chance to talk to at the event the same silly question. I’m calling it the Tor.com Ridiculous Survey. Our pilot voyage was at the Fantastic Fiction reading series, where our readers were Jeff Somers and James Patrick Kelly. And ...

The SFFaudio Podcast #006
SFFaudio — The SFFaudio Podcast #006 is here. Six is the loneliest number (after 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) dontchanknow. In this our 6th, and sixth loneliest, show we’re asking lonely questions like: ‘If you had to choose a universe without either Ray Bradbury or Neil Gaiman, which would you pick?’ And ‘Which is the worst audiobook recording ever made?’ Pod-in to find out the answers to these and many more exciting questions that nobody asked us. Topics discussed include: StarShipSofa’s Aural Delights, Paul ...

25 Years of The Best Short Stories in Science Fiction Has Come To This [Literature]
io9 — It's been 25 years of Gardner Dozios' The Year's Best Science Fiction, and the 25th anniversary edition totals 692 pages of testimony to the state of the industry. Dozois dedicates the first 51 pages alone to a summation of the previous year, a trend he started in the first volume a quarter of a century ago. Congratulations is in order for the editor of this venerable series. Now we judge whether this year's group was worthy of his attention. In his introduction to the volume Dozois writes of the British journal Postscripts, "I could wish they'd print more core science fiction and ...

Fantasy Book Critic’s 2008 Review/2009 Preview — Jeff Somers
Fantasy Book Critic — 2008 FAVORITES: I’m not always the brightest bulb in the pack, and my youth was misspent drinking on street corners and playing an obscure game called Bottlecaps on the streets of Jersey City (involving plastic caps from milk jugs, clay, and chalked boards on the ...

MIND MELD: Shrewd Writing Advice From Some of Science Fiction and Fantasy's Best Writers
SF Signal — Some of SF Signal's readers are aspiring writers, so we thought we take this week to ask some published writers in the genre to dispense with some useful writerly advice. Here's what we asked them: ...

Silver Kelly and My Golden Age
The Mumpsimus — ... is now available. This is a particularly special issue, as it includes James Patrick Kelly's 25th annual June story -- the first was the ...

Sunborn: Genesis of a Video
Tor.com — ...  of the earlier novels. Then I embarked on what I hoped would become a podcast audiobook; after all, James Patrick Kelly did pretty well with that format, and Jim wasn’t any smarter than me, was he? (Don’t answer that.) Many takes and many, many hours of sound editing later, I had a pretty fair audio file of the ...

The Secret History of Science Fiction being revealed
SFScope — [image] James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel have announced the table of contents for The Secret History of Science Fiction , the newest of their anthologies published by Tachyon Publications . According to Kelly, these anthologies "seek to shed light on different parts of the genre and which, in fact, make the case that some genre definitions are eroding or perhaps never really meant very much to begin with." The Secret History of Science Fiction , which is scheduled to be published as a $14.95 trade paperback this October, is an "anthology of reprint stories published from ...

MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 2)
SF Signal — Short fiction anthologies come in many flavors: some contain original fiction and some are comprised of reprints; they can be themed or non-themed; they may restrict themselves to a certain sub-genre of speculative fiction... But one thing they all have in common is that it's Editors that put them together. Continuing from Part 1 last week, we asked a handful of Editors the following question: ...

Sofanauts: The State of Asimov’s Special
SFFaudio — Tony Smith’s latest Sofanauts podcast features a discussion about Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine with it’s editor Sheila Williams (and a bunch of other folks). This follows another recent Sofanauts show in which F&SF, Analog and Asimov’s all got bashed for not being more web-savvy, not having modern websites (blogs), and in general not being very 21st century about the internet (let alone futuristic). This is all despite having some relatively good news to spread (the Kindle versions are selling)! ...

The SFFaudio Podcast #040
SFFaudio — The SFFaudio Podcast #040 – Jesse and Scott are joined by Steve Feldberg of Audible.com to talk about Audible Frontiers and other Audible.com projects. We talk audiobooks the whole show, giving particular attention to those produced by Audible.com itself. Steve tells us all about a bunch of the upcoming Science Fiction, Fantasy, espionage, and crime audiobooks we can expect to see showing up in the Audible catalgoue this year and next! Talked about on today’s show: Audible.com, Audible Frontiers, Gateway by Frederik Pohl, ...