Stuff I like in fiction
Lengthy notes on stuff I like in fiction. (More...)
Lengthy notes on stuff I like in fiction. (More...)
Battlestar Galactica returns to TV tonight for the start of its final season. (Or at least the start of the... (More...)
I continue to be out of touch; it's been a month now since Chris East announced that the fiction department... (More...)
Been meaning to post more about the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which I've been quite enjoying. (I've... (More...)
In discussions of early sf criticism--of writers who write serious and thoughtful critiques of speculative fiction as literature--I hear certain... (More...)
It continues to frustrate me that I don't have time to read everything I want to read. Here are a... (More...)
Annalee Newitz, Charlie Anders, and a cast of several have been running a blog called io9 for the past few... (More...)
I'm still reading the Tiptree bio. Getting close to the end; I'm becoming more and more aware of what I... (More...)
I'm sometimes surprised by how often sf stories are all about the evils of technology, and how much better unmodified... (More...)
For the past couple months, Tia Nevitt has been blogging about debut fantasy novels, including reviews of some of the... (More...)
"[St Paul's Church in Grangetown, Cardiff] is to host a Doctor Who-themed communion service aimed at young people. [The church]... (More...)
As most of you know by now, Madeleine L'Engle has died at age 88. I liked the original Wrinkle in... (More...)
For decades now, sf writers have been writing stories that go like this: Pick some big change (to a person... (More...)
I realized recently that I had never finished reading last year's Year's Best science fiction and fantasy anthologies, and that... (More...)
This happened all the time in sf stories in the 1940s: the protagonist would see something strange happen, and his... (More...)
I've just updated the Year's Best SF Info page to link to the newly posted table of contents for Best... (More...)
Which Star Trek episodes shouldn't be missed? (More...)
The discussion has taken its toll, and I've decided: I'm declaring myself to be a write-in candidate for the SFWA... (More...)
Some assorted tidbits pertaining to speculative fiction: Everyone but me appears to have known for days now that last week,... (More...)
Among my father's books, I just found a copy of a printed fanzine. It contains, among other things: A complaint... (More...)
A few noteworthy upcoming and current things happening in Redwood City and San José: Tonight (Wednesday, March 14), 7:30 p.m.,... (More...)
At WisCon last year, Samuel R. Delany interviewed Joanna Russ by telephone; I was sad to miss the event, but... (More...)
The majority of the Year's Best reprint volumes have posted tables of contents; I've been updating my Year's Best info... (More...)
In honor of Nick M's birthday (happy birthday, Nick!), I'm finally getting around to mentioning that Nick has provided his... (More...)
Carol Reid of Albany, New York writes to tell me about Io Sono, her new site honoring the life and... (More...)
A couple weeks ago, for reasons I can't remember offhand, I was trying to figure out the name of a... (More...)
In the past few days, I keep coming across various items of advice and commentary about writing. (The focus here... (More...)
It seems like every year we SH editors frantically scurry around to all sorts of websites and journals and things,... (More...)
Sometimes people complain that the word polyamory is a mix of Latin and Greek roots. I've been known to make... (More...)
To quote Locus Online: "SF Grand Master Jack Williamson, born 1908, died this afternoon at his home in Portales, New... (More...)
So with the aid of the new devil device, Kam and I watched the two-hour season opener of Battlestar Galactica.... (More...)
Borderlands Books, in San Francisco, has a bunch of readings and other events coming soon. For example: Date and time... (More...)
I've been meaning for quite some time to link to Eleanor Arnason's blog, but I don't think I ever got... (More...)
My journal will be one of the featured blogs on the featured blogs page on the Asimov's site and the... (More...)
A bunch of links to various kinds of Star Trek fan films, plus info on Phase II. (More...)
I liked it quite a bit. (More...)
One of the high points of WorldCon for me was getting to chat more than I usually do with Sheila... (More...)
I continue to be very slow in pursuing my goal of finding out more about sf published in languages other... (More...)
We at Strange Horizons have just about filled up our publishing schedule for 2006, and have started on 2007. Interestingly, even though still only about 33% to 40% of our submissions are by women, in 2006 two-thirds of the stories we're publishing are by women. (More...)
Do you like epic fiction, but don't have time to read the latest ten-thousand-page epic series? Fear not! Twenty Epics,... (More...)
I knew Jim Baen had had a stroke a couple of weeks ago, but I hadn't known until just now... (More...)
It's fairly common in science fiction these days to see sentient beings in electronic form--whether artificial intelligences or uploaded human... (More...)
This coming Tuesday, June 13, there are two events in San Francisco, at the same time and in different places,... (More...)
For over three months now, I've been meaning to post a note about Liz Henry's excellent SH review of Touched... (More...)
I keep seeing links to photos of "The Sultan's Elephant," but not to information about it. In case anyone else... (More...)
A couple of quick thoughts about BSG that don't involve spoilers (mostly discussion of the iTunes Music Store approach to... (More...)
Very big spoilers here for the last three episodes of season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. Non-spoiler summary: I loved them,... (More...)
There's a trope I like a lot in fiction when it's done well: characters who are so ardent in their... (More...)
Tomorrow night (which is to say Wednesday, 10 May), there'll be a rapid-fire reading in San Francisco to benefit Strange... (More...)
Some reasonably big and fairly specific spoilers here for the second half of season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. Kam and... (More...)
This entry contains a couple of generalized and thematic quasi-spoilers for Battlestar Galactica, especially for the first half of season... (More...)
"And now," Dr. Zurückgeschichte said, "please explain to me how an infodump works." "But why would I have to explain... (More...)
Peter W. pointed to the Five-Minute "Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries" comic. Sort of in the style of the old Fotonovels,... (More...)
According to the SFWA obituary: Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem died in his home city of Krakow on Monday,... (More...)
Assorted Year's Best TOCs and news and such: Kathryn Cramer has posted the table of contents for Year's Best SF... (More...)
I wrote about this a while back, but I've learned more about the situation since then, so I wanted to... (More...)
I haven't finished reading all the non-SH stories from 2005 that I plan to read before making my Hugo nominations,... (More...)
As many of y'all know, Rich Horton reads possibly a higher percentage of the short science fiction and fantasy published... (More...)
For those who haven't heard: sf writer Octavia E. Butler died on Saturday, age 58. Here are some relevant links... (More...)
Some deadlines, to-do items, and con-related notes, and more good news for SH. (More...)
Andreas Katsulas, who played G'Kar on Babylon 5, has died of lung cancer at age 59. I knew nothing about... (More...)
Some thoughts on plausibility and genre conventions. (More...)
Just discovered that filksinger-songwriter Cynthia McQuillin died two weeks ago, on January 14, of renal and respiratory failure, at age... (More...)
Some items that may or may not add up to more than the sum of their parts: Okay, so there's... (More...)
Imagine you're an 18-year-old computer gamer in Chicago, and you're sitting around at home one evening when someone you don't... (More...)
Just a reminder that Tim Pratt will be reading at Borderlands Books in San Francisco today (Saturday, 7 January) at... (More...)
While checking the quote in that last entry, I stumbled into a forum thread on The misconceptions you had about... (More...)
Friday brought the sad news that The Infinite Matrix, once the second-highest-paying online speculative fiction venue, is closing its doors.... (More...)
Here are some of the things I've done in the past week, in no particular order: finally washed some dishes... (More...)
Back in May, I posted some links to a few entries at Hitherby Dragons. I still haven't gone back to... (More...)
I'm continuing to re-read the Narnia books. Will have more to say about that sooner or later, but for now,... (More...)
People are always talking about the amazing predictive abilities of science fiction. But what about fantasy? Yes, yes, Arthur C.... (More...)