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Paul Di Filippo reviews Glasshouse by Charles Stross for Science Fiction Weekly and gives it an A+.
Wow, firstly you don't see many A+ reviews, secondly it's a writer as great as Paul Di Filippo reviewing.
Adding it to my To Buy list, although the UK paperback isn't out until March 2007.
Irene Gallo, Art Director for Tor/Forge books since 1994, and Starscape books since it's launch in 2001 has a new blog. Including a useful post giving advice on what to put in your portfolio. [Via BoingBoing]
New York Times columnist Dave Itzkoff reviews Glasshouse by Charlie Stross and Living Next Door to the God of Love by Justina Robson.
Sawyer and Bacigalupi win Campbell and Sturgeon Awards
"The winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science fiction story of 2005 was Paolo Bacigalupi for "The Calorie Man." The winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science-fiction novel of 2005 was Robert J. Sawyer for Mindscan."
Nice picture, Robert Sawyer wearing a nice cheesey grin, Paolo Bacigalupi looking distracted.
Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association has put online an article from it's last issue, Confessions of a Short-Story Burnout. Notes from a survivor of the year 2005 by Matthew Cheney. Intelligent stuff as usual, with links to a few recommended stories.
Richard Hawkins from SciFi UK Review (SciFi.UK.com) interviews Christopher Priest.
I'm still very excited about The Prestige movie, I have faith in the Nolans! (But not The Nolans)
Jim Baen has died, here's an obituary. He was famous for Baen Books but read his Wikipedia entry to see how much he had done.
(First saw this via SFSignal but I guess it'll we be everywhere soon)
Continuing their excellent What The Author Says series Forbidden Planet now adds Neal Asher, talking about his upcoming books (all based in his Polity universe).
Paul McAuley reviews A Scanner Darkly...
Fans of Dick’s work will almost certainly love it
Which makes me feel happy and confident that I'll like it. Coooool.
Interesting, Lou Anders of Pyr, is urging the US SF book buying community to buy the US editions of SF novels written by UK authors, rather than buying the UK editions through Amazon. Because then the US sales get attributed correctly and the authors have more chance of getting a better US deal etc.
So why not do simultaneous releases? Why is there the lag? (Never understood that for films either).
