Books: September 2005 Archives
Cory Doctorow is podcasting one of his novelletes here. Always interesting to here an author read his own work.
Jonathan@Notes from Coode Street has posted a collection of opening lines from SF&F novels. I knew 2 and a couple of others nagged at my mind but I couldn't recall them.
Here's the answers, and I had indeed only read 4 of them. So does that mean my memory is ok?!
The perks of working for Time magazine appear to be that you get to interview Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon at the same time.
Personally I think that's just greedy. he could have let me interview one of them.
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson
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The Guardian has a (timely) interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, concentrating on his new book which is "set in a flood ridden America".
I know I've said this before but anyone put off by the size of the hard SF Mars trilogy should try his Orange County trilogy, particularily Pacific Edge which is a wonderful book.
Cory Doctorow seems to be a master of online publiicity and he continues that trend once again by getting Salon to serialise his new book Themepunks.
There will a new chapter every Monday for 10 weeks.
Unfortunately you have to do that annoying site-pass-with-adverts thing.
Seeing as the entire country is reaching a crescendo of cricket mania I thought I try and find some Science Fiction that involved cricket...
...and failed bar a few mentions on Infinity Plus.
Anyone know of any Cricketing SF stories?
Orbit has a chapter from Ken MacLeod's new book, Learning the World, online here.
I only discovered Electric Velocipede, recently. This new issue has all the fiction online which is pretty cool.
So much to read...!
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Prompted by Notes From Coode Street I re-checked the short shorts selection that Nature has been running, entitled Futures. There is now a very nice list of cool authors with stories up there, including Stephen Baxter, Vonda N. McIntyre, Joe Haldeman, Justina Robson, Bruce Sterling and Charles Stross.
I haven't read them all...yet.
SFX - INTERVIEW: Neil Gaiman talks about Anansi Boys
SFX has a nice interview with Neil Gaiman online.
