(1) GET READY FOR VALENTINE’S DAY. Cora Buhlert rolls out “Love Through Space and Time 2022 – A Round-up of Indie Valentine’s Day Speculative Fiction”. …These Valentine’s Day stories cover the broad spectrum of speculative fiction. We have urban fantasy, … Continue reading
(1) THE TROUBLE WITH KIBBLES. With Camestros Felapton 63 chapters into Debarkle, a chronicle of how the Sad/Rabid Puppies were the sff genre’s reflection of broader right-wing movements, John Scalzi shares his own retrospective “Thoughts on the ‘Debarkle’” at Whatever. … Continue reading
(1) FUTURE TENSE. The July 2021 entry in the Future Tense Fiction series is Justina Ireland’s “Collateral Damage”, about how an Army platoon responds when an experimental military robot is embedded with it. …Unit 10003 interacted with assigned platoon during … Continue reading
(1) A NOT-SO-LITTLE LIST. BookRiot concocted a way of assessing an interesting question: “How Do Readers Rate The New York Times Best-Selling Books?” …For their research, the organization pooled all titles on the NYT List from June 22, 2008 to March … Continue reading
(1) COMING TO ANOTHER PLANET NEAR YOU. Science News posted the winning name in NASA’s contest to name the new Mars rover. Meet Perseverance, NASA’s next ambassador to the Red Planet. The Mars rover’s new name was announced March 5, … Continue reading
(1) BUSIEK TALKS ABOUT NEW SERIES, THE MARVELS. “Anyone. Anywhere. Anytime.” That’s how acclaimed writer Kurt Busiek describes his new ongoing series, The Marvels. Busiek said in an interview with Marvel.com — The whole idea of The Marvels is to … Continue reading
(1) CSF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. David L. Ulin goes “Inside the archives — and mind — of sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick” for the LA Times. CSF’s sff collection originated with the work of Professor Willis McNelly. …“The Man in the … Continue reading
The finalists for the 2019 Hugo Awards, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the 1944 Retrospective Hugo Awards were announced April 2 in a live … Continue reading
(1) SCROLLO. Four genuine Solo posters appeared in this space recently. I learned from Nerdist there have been a lot of Solo parodies, like these — https://twitter.com/Starcorpsonline/status/960641411547774976 You missed one. pic.twitter.com/hgbgrzKi25 — Voximilian (@LinkVoximilian) February 5, 2018 Whoops, we missed … Continue reading
British Science Fiction Association members have until January 31 to help choose the BSFA Awards shortlist for works published in 2017. In the first round of voting members nominated a longlist of 48 novels, 41 short stories, 20 items of nonfiction, and 28 … Continue reading