Books: February 2005 Archives
Charlie Stross's weblog always reveals some great insights into being a novelist. His latest post is an essential read for any aspiring writers (although it's a bit depressing).
I've finished reading the quite amazingly wonderful River of Gods by Ian McDonald. If you hadn't already guessed I liked it a lot. It's exactly the sort of Science Fiction that I love, complicated, involved, absorbing.
Salon.com has an interview with Ian Banks [Via SFSignal]. I'm still waiting for The Algerbraist to come out in paperback.
Locus Online has posted some Neil Gaiman interview excerpts. (He looks a bit ill in that picture!).
As usual he says some wonderful things. As a writer I find him a great inspiration. He also seems like such a nice bloke, the sort of guy you'd like to buy a beer and spend an evening in a pub chatting to.
A new short story from Ken MacLeod has been published online by Nature. It's very short but pretty cool, worth a couple of minutes.
Cory's newest short story I, Robot is online now at Infinite Matrix.
2004 SFWA Nebula Awards® Final Ballot
Novels --
Paladin of Souls -- Lois McMaster Bujold (Eos, Oct03)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom -- Cory Doctorow (Tor, Feb03)
Omega -- Jack McDevitt (Ace, Nov03)
Cloud Atlas : A Novel -- David Mitchell (Sceptre, Jan 2004)
Perfect Circle -- Sean Stewart (Small Beer Press, Jun04)
The Knight -- Gene Wolfe (Tor, Jan04)
I've only read "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" which I thought was okay.
A big list of free fiction on the web. But no RSS feed that I could find, so I probably will never look at it again :-(
The shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke award is out.
River of Gods - Ian McDonald
Iron Council - China Miéville
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Market Forces - Richard Morgan
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The System of the World - Neal Stephenson
The Award is chosen by jury and is awarded every year to the best science fiction novel which received its first British publication during the previous calendar year.
This years judges are...
BSFA: Carol Ann Kerry Green, Mark Greener
SFF: Mark Bould, Justina Robson
Science Museum: Dave Palmer
Chair: Paul Kincaid
As usual I haven't read any of them (except the superb River of Gods which I'm a third through)
