Tons of F&SF Stuff
Jennifer Fallon loves Wile E. Coyote, and doesn’t care who knows it. (She also lists Chuck Jones’s very interesting rules for Roadrunner cartoons, which show just how much of a brilliant formal exercise those shorts were.)
But Wouldn’t It Be Cool? lists nine reasons that he reads SF.
The Philadelphia Inquirer uses the Harry Potter hook to look at Christian fantasy. (The Washington Post has a similar story today as well.)
Nine MSN News promotes the Australian writer John Flanagan and his series for young readers, “Ranger’s Apprentice.”
Tech Digest asks and answers: what is steampunk?
SF Signal has posted the final lists for their Harry Potter Outreach Program, designed to drag Potter readers (kicking and screaming, if necessary) over to the SF/Fantasy shelves and get them to read more stuff that they’ll like.
Adventures in SciFi Publishing’s 27th podcast features an interview with Sarah Beth Durst, author of the new young-readers novel Into the Wild. (And some other things, like another installment of “Ask an Author” with Tobias Buckell.)
Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times reviews some little book called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (Is this what it takes to get the Times to notice fantasy novels?) There’s also another version of the same review, with, I think, only a different headline.
There’s also a Harry Potter review in the Baltimore Sun – linked here in its appearance in the Seattle Times, since that’s where I found it.
Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review looks at Shaun Hutson’s Unmarked Graves.
Strange Horizons reviews Brian Aldiss’s new novel HARM.
The New Yorker briefly notes (does not review, but "briefly notes") William Gibson’s new novel Spook Country, under a section headlined “Summer Reading.” Any ideas as to how they could have been more condescending?
SF Diplomat reviews the special issue of Interzone honoring Michael Moorcock (#221).
Kate Nepveu reviews Peter Watts’s Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight.
SF Signal’s JP declares that Space Opera is his favorite kind of SF, and lists a bunch of great recent books in that sub-genre.
Night Shade Books is having an inventory-clearing 50% off sale on books bought directly from them – minimum order four books. Might I suggest their Kage Baker short story collections, Steven Erikson novellas, Glen Cook reprints, or Lucius Shepard novels as good places to start filling up your cart?
Fantasy writer Jennifer Fallon has found some truly hideous covers not her own, luckily—they’re actually for romance novels.
RAND’s famous “Habitable Planets for Man” (well, famous in science-fiction-writer circles) paper, which is essentially a blueprint for creating extraterrestrial planets, is now available as a free PDF download. [via Robert J. Sawyer]
MSNBC reports on the efforts of University of Washington physicist and science fiction writer John Cramer to fund his experiments in backward causality through donations by his fans. Is this a new model for scientific research?
The Washington Post investigates the rise of evangelical Christian fantasy novels, and the hopes of their writers and promoters to create “the next Harry Potter.”
Locus Online has a feature essay by Gary Westfahl about why The Twilight Zone is so durable. (That’s easy; it’s two things – one, that theme music, and two, Rod Serling’s voice. Simple!)
Publishers Weekly has an article this week about the current flood of Neil Gaiman-related movies, and what publishers are doing to tie into them.
MSNBC reports on the efforts of University of Washington physicist and science fiction writer John Cramer to fund his experiments in backward causality through donations by his fans. Is this a new model for scientific research?
The Washington Post investigates the rise of evangelical Christian fantasy novels, and the hopes of their writers and promoters to create “the next Harry Potter.”
Locus Online has a feature essay by Gary Westfahl about why The Twilight Zone is so durable. (That’s easy; it’s two things – one, that theme music, and two, Rod Serling’s voice. Simple!)
Publishers Weekly has an article this week about the current flood of Neil Gaiman-related movies, and what publishers are doing to tie into them.
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