It’s a while since the last link-dump, so some of these are a little stale now, but since this is as much for my future reference as your benefit:
- New Scientist’s science fiction special includes views of the future of sf by Kim Stanley Robinson, William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K Le Guin, Nick Sagan and Stephen Baxter
- From the BBC Archives: a report on science fiction, March 1962
- Fiction:
- Book View Cafe: “a consortium of over twenty professional authors with extensive publishing credits in the print world. Every day, new content available nowhere else will be served up on Book View Cafe: short stories, flash fiction, poetry, episodes of serialized novels, and maybe even a podcast now and then.” Contributing authors include Ursula K Le Guin, Vonda N McIntyre, Sarah Zettel and Jennifer Stevenson.
- Dangerous Space by Kelley Eskridge
- A virtual anthology of sf from the Phillipines
- Three unpublished novels by Dominic Green
- Tumbarumba!
- Earth 2100: “We’ve envisioned a troubled future, but now is the time to begin anew. Our team at ABC News is inviting everyone to submit ‘Solutions for Change’ videos.” (via)
- Reviews:
- John Clute on David Marusek’s Getting to Know You
- Karen Burnham on The Immortal Storm
- M. John Harrison on Stephen King’s short stories
- Adam Roberts on Ian MacLeod’s Song of Time
- Paul Kincaid on The Baum Plan for Financial Independence by John Kessell
- L. Timmel Duchamp on reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capitol trilogy
- Rich Puchalsky on Splinter by Adam Roberts
- Martin Lewis on Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set
- Max Cairnduff on Neuromancer
- Duncan Lawie on The Quiet War
- Matthew Cheney on the second part of Octavian Nothing
- And Adam Roberts on reviewing
- The new issue of Steam Engine Time [pdf]
- A profile of Jose Saramago
- An interview with Ellen Datlow
- Kit Whitfield on werewolves
- Adam Roberts is writing a fantasy novel he thinks won’t see print. Well, I’d read it, at least.
- The architecture of Code 46
- And your clicky of the day: James Nicoll would like to know what the best and worst decades were for sf
I would buy and read that Adam Roberts fantasy too :) Sounds very interesting from the description on his web page.
M. Flynn did – superbly in my opinion, at least the medieval part – 1340’s village meets somewhat advanced aliens, advanced aliens are more comprehensible for us than said village people in Eifelheim, though not in verse :)
Interesting links, Niall, although maybe a little, er, Adam Roberts heavy. Thanks for the positivity, though. And Liviu: the Flunn novel … I take it that’s Eifelheim? I’ve not read it, but will if you recommend.
In hindsight, yes, a special Adam Roberts Section might have been appropriate this time.
Has anyone actually had a Tumbarumba appear for them? I have been browsing with it on and so far no exciting out-of-place stories :(
Eifelheim by M. Flynn has two threads: a medieval one that sounds somewhat similar to Mr. Roberts’ fantasy book and that is done very well, and a shorter modern one that is the reworked earlier novella with the same name and involves a historian researching the mystery of a disappearing German medieval village. This last thread is less successful in my opinion, being less coherent, more of a fill-in story.
Yellow Blue Tibia is a book that I am ordering as soon as Book Depository lists it.
Liz: no, same here.
I haven’t seen any yet, either, but some people have.