I think today is the last day to vote in the SF Site Reader’s Choice poll — I say “think” because I’m not sure whether “Friday, 6 February 2009 at midnight, Eastern Standard Time” is four hours ago or twenty hours hence. Or rather, I suspect it’s the former, but the latter seems the more logical time for a deadline. Anyway, I’m going to send my votes in, and so should you.
Month: February 2009
War in SF
Even all the snow ever can’t stop the new Vector getting through, it seems:
Torque Control — editorial
Letters — from Anna Feruglio Dal Dan and Martin Lewis
HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds as a controlling metaphor for the twentieth century — Stephen Baxter
The Menace of War: Einstein, Freud and SF by James Holden
After Heinlein: Politics in Scalzi’s Green Soldier Universe by Martin McGrath
The Flowers of War — Nick Hubble considers The Carhullan Army
First Impressions — book reviews edited by Kari Sperring
Transmission, Interrupted — a TV column by Saxon Bullock
Foundation Favourites: Memoirs of a Spacewoman — Andy Sawyer
Resonances: Hitler Wins — Stephen Baxter
The New X: Wings of Song — Graham Sleight
It’s a big issue — twelve pages more than usual! — but as noted in the editorial, I also recommend the following supplementary reading:
Wild Hearts in Uniform — Gwyneth Jones
Denvention 3 Guest of Honour Speech — Lois McMaster Bujold
Letters to the usual address; and, as ever, if your copy doesn’t arrive in a timely fashion, let us know. Otherwise, apologies for the quiet period around here — very busy with the day job at the moment, and I’m off to Montreal (for all of 48 hours!) tomorrow.