Category: SF

  • Vintage

    If you’re looking for a good ghost story, you should buy Steve Berman’s new novel Vintage.  Steve sent me an advanced reader’s copy of the book a little while ago, and it was remarkable:  a supernatural love story that’s scary as hell. 

  • The Language of “The Language of Moths”

    I’ve been asked to write a short essay on “The Language of Moths” for the Nebula Awards, which has placed me in the awkward position of talking about one of my own stories, which I don’t usually do, or like to do, for various reasons.  This is my first stab at it, though.  *Revised with…

  • Interfictions

    I’ve certainly been writing a lot about anthologies that are out or that are coming out in the near future recently, and here’s another one, Interfictions, due out next month from Small Beer Press.  It has a gorgeous cover, and the editors, Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, have gone above and beyond and around and…

  • Best American Fantasy

    Another anthology of the “Year’s Best Fantasy” you may be asking?  Yes, but, if we can judge by the contents of the recommended reading list for the Best American Fantasy, which has gone live recently, it’s probably not like any of the current anthologies that present themselves as Year’s Bests.  My story, “The Creation of Birds”, which appeared…

  • Disasters happen

    The new issue of Ideomancer has appeared, featuring the previously mentioned hyper-text project Ben Rosenbaum arranged between himself, myself, Elad Haber’s self, Megan McCarron’s self, Greg Van Eekhout’s self, Tim Pratt’s self, and Kiini Ibura Salaam’s self.  Skip on over to read “23 Small Disasters”, and let us know what you think (unless you hate…

  • Final Nebula Ballot

    The final Nebula ballot for 2007 has been posted at SFWA.  Congratulations to everyone whose stories and books and scripts made it this far.  I myself am not holding out to win against the likes of that competition.  Seeing how it’s the Oscars time of year and all, I’ll risk saying I would be made ridiculously happy…

  • Judges needed

    Judges are needed for storySouth’s 2007 Million Writers Award.  The award honors the best short stories published online in the previous year.  This is an award Richard Bowes, a noted speculative fiction writer, won last year with his story “There’s a Hole in the City”, which had been published in Scifiction.  Because the award considers stories…

  • 2007 Crawford Award Finalists

    The shortlist for this year’s Crawford Award, for best first book by a new fantasy writer, has been announced: Daniel Abraham, A Shadow in Summer Alan De Niro, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child Theodora Goss, In The Forest of Forgetting Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora…

  • And Now Read This…

    If you missed it before in the mass of information we call the internet, make sure to read Yoshio Kobayashi’s essay on the new generation of Japanese SF writers.  I myself wish American SF publishers would give us more international writers to read.  I’m sure it’s probably based on statistics that Americans don’t like to…