- For those who might be interested (say, those looking for things to nominate for the BSFA Best Artwork Award — one week to the deadline!), the Locus Online Directory of 2006 cover art.
- I am told that this link points to an announcement about an anthology of the short-short Futures from Nature. However, since I don’t have a subscription to Nature, I can’t personally confirm that that is where the link points.
- The ISFDB is now user-editable.
- The first issue of Farrago’s Wainscot is live: fiction from Forest Aguirre, Jay Lake, Nisi Shawl, various other bits and pieces.
- A tourist map of Gotham
- Fictional ruins from fictional worlds.
- Maureen McHugh on the Tiptree biography.
- Michael Moorcock on Against the Day; and more Pynchon discussion at Ed Champion‘s place. And here‘s Michael Wood’s LRB review.
- Jonathan McCalmont on Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box.
- Israeli science fiction is dead!
- What I did over New Year. Mmm, books.
- And finally, here‘s the schedule for BSFA London meetings for 2007:
*24 January: Paul Cornell interviewed by Graham Sleight
28 February: Robert Holdstock interviewed by Paul Kincaid
*28-Mar: Hal Duncan interviewed by Tony Keen
25-Apr: Jon George interviewed by Paul Kincaid
23-May: Stephen Hunt interviewed by Tom Hunter
27-Jun: Brian Stableford interviewed by Edward James
25-Jul: Anne Sudworth, interviewer tba
*22 August: TBA
26-Sep: Juliet McKenna interviewed by Pat McMurray
*24 October: John Clute interviewed by Andrew McKie
28-Nov Iain M. Banks interviewed by Farah MendlesohnA * means there are five Wednesdays in the month, and reminds you that the meeting is on the fourth Wednesday, not the last Wednesday.
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Google won’t cache the subscriber content on the Nature website, but the excerpt of that page provided in search results is “An anthology of the best of Futures is planned, and the column itself will continue, for a while, in our sister publication Nature Physics.”
The anthology is called ‘Futures from Nature’ and will be published by Tor in November. You can order it now.
Fantastic! Thanks. (The Amazon page is here.)
While I am here, I’d like to post the following announcement which may be of interest. Please feel free to disseminate as widely as you think fit.
Futures is the award-winning science-fiction section of Nature, now currently running in Nature’s monthly sister title, Nature Physics.
In response to public demand, Futures will be returning to Nature in September 2007 as a weekly back-page feature, as well as continuing each month in Nature Physics. The Futures column in each journal will forge its own identity: a story in one journal will not be reprinted in the other, although authors are free to express a preference and choose for which journal their story should be considered.
Although contributions are sometimes commissioned, unsolicited stories are welcome for both journals. Each story should be an entirely fictional, self-contained piece between 850-950 words in length, and the genre should, broadly speaking, be ‘hard’ (that is, ‘scientific’ SF) rather than, say, outright fantasy, slipstream or horror.
Each item should be sent as a Word (.doc) attachment to futures@nature.com, giving full contact details along with a brief (approximately 30-word) autobiographical squib that could be appended to the story if published. Unsolicited artwork is not considered. Presubmission enquiries are discouraged: instead, prospective authors are advised to read earlier Futures stories in Nature, Nature Physics and selected examples available for free at http://www.concatenation.org/futuresindex.html.
Authors whose stories are published in Nature or Nature Physics will be paid at the same rate irrespective of journal. The payment is commensurate with the brevity of the stories and is probably enough for a meal for two (with wine) at an establishment whose modesty will correlate either directly or inversely with the current sterling-dollar exchange rate, depending on the location of the restaurant. Publication is also subject to signature of a Nature Publishing Group author agreement, terms of which are often negotiable, and specimens of which can be seen on request.
Should you have read as far as this, you might be interested to learn that Futures from Nature, an anthology of 100 past Futures stories, will be published by Tor this November, and can now be ordered from any reputable online bookstore.
This is a public announcement which you are encouraged to disseminate as widely as you see fit.
Dr Henry Gee
Senior Editor, Nature