Face or vase? Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
tor.com 9/24/2009 — The kind of science fiction that’s easiest for a mainstream writer to write is the utopia or dystopia, because it’s a genre that started off as mainstream satire. The most famous twentieth-century examples, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four ...

The SFFaudio Podcast #019
sffaudio.com 1/6/2009 — The SFFaudio Podcast #019 - Julie Davis (of the Forgotten Classics , StarShipSofa and Happy Catholic blog ) joins us for a potassium filled show. Talked about on today’s show: Forgotten Classics , The Hidden Adversary , Agatha ...

The SFFaudio Podcast #025
sffaudio.com 2/16/2009 — The SFFaudio Podcast #025 - Jesse and Scott are joined by Brian Murphy of The Silver Key and The Cimmerian blogs. We mostly talk about Fantasy, with a little war talk to make things manlier. Talked about on today’s show: Recent Arrivals, Penguin Audio , re-release of Stephen King ...

The SFFaudio Podcast #027
sffaudio.com 3/2/2009 — The SFFaudio Podcast #027 - Jesse and Scott are joined by Rick Jackson (The Time Traveler). Today we talk about new audiobooks, the ongoing CONAN situation, and libraries. Should libraries be renting Zunes to patrons? Talked about on today’s show: Ted Chiang , Eclipse 2 , ...

Recent Arrivals from Blackstone Audio
sffaudio.com 3/6/2009 — The Green Hills of Earth By Robert A. Heinlein; Read by Tom Weiner 6 CDs - 6.5 hours - [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Blackstone Audio Published: 2009 ISBN: 9780786167838 We pray for one last landing On the globe that gave us birth; Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies And the cool, ...

Making Lists: Mindblowing SF by Women and People of Color
tor.com 8/24/2009 — By now most people are familiar with the objections raised to Mike Ashley’s Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF and its all male (and most likely all white) contributors. There’s no need to rehash all of that again, but the debate and discussion ...

The SFFaudio Podcast #015
sffaudio.com 12/8/2008 — The SFFaudio Podcast #015 - On today’s podcast we take you on a merry chase ending with… “governments can do things right.” Talked about on today’s show: SFFvideo.com!, The January Dancer , Michael Flynn , ...

Christmas Books
tor.com 12/25/2008 — I own three illustrated copies of The Night Before Christmas , one pop-up, one with windows and one with little tags you pull to get special effects, like St Nicholas’s belly shaking like a bowl full of jelly. My son Sasha is now eighteen, but we’ve ...

Women Writing Hard Science Fiction
mikebrotherton.com 3/22/2009 — There aren’t a lot of them in my estimation, unfortunately, so let’s celebrate the women who do write hard science fiction and encourage others. A few years ago, I wrote a blog entry about women in science . There’s not a lot of ...

What's The Difference Between Story And Plot? [Story-telling]
io9.com 4/3/2009 — People always say the story is the most important thing in good science fiction. But excessively "plot-driven" science fiction is dismissed as mindless or worse. What's the difference between story and plot anyway? Are "plot" and "story" just two ...

Sunday roundup (2/15/09 to 2/21/09) — Apex Book Company
Apex Author and Editor News Apex Editor-in-Chief Jason Sizemore will be appearing in Writers Workshop of Horror , edited by Michael Knost (available this fall from Woodland Press ). Also honored to be sharing the table of contents with Jason ...

Horror's future, Clive Barker, finally has some new films coming up — SCI FI Wire
Clive Barker gives a talk Nov. 5, 2007, at the EMP/Sci Fi Museum in Seattle. (Steven Friederich) For a while, it was beginning to look like "the future of horror" Clive Barker was becoming a thing of the past. While that blurb quote from Stephen ...