(1) SOUND AND FURY. Locus Online has a fine summary of recent developments in “Audible’s Caption Controversy”. Audible, Amazon’s audiobook publishing arm, announced plans for “Audible Captions,” a feature that displays the text of a book along with the narration … Continue reading
(1) WHAT GEEZERS SAY. James Davis Nicoll’s twist on his previous series theme, Old People Read New SFF, finds the panel assigned “Carnival Nine” by Caroline M. Yoachim. This month’s installment of Old People Read New SFF is Caroline M. … Continue reading
By JJ: To assist Hugo nominators, listed below are the editors of works published for the first time in 2018. These credits have been accumulated from Acknowledgments sections and copyright pages in works, as well as other sources on the … Continue reading
(1) FOLLOWING IN GODZILLA’S FOOTSTEPS. The Harvard Map Collection presents “Where Disaster Strikes: Modern Space and the Visualization of Destruction”. Floods, fires, earthquakes, volcanoes, bombings, droughts, and even alien invasions: disaster can take many forms. And, although disasters are always … Continue reading
(1) WHAT DID HE SAY? Scott Edelman hopes you will eavesdrop on his breakfast with the award-winning Chen Qiufan in Episode 49 of Eating the Fantastic. Chen Qiufan has published more thirty stories in venues such as Science Fiction World, … Continue reading
Baen Books has announced their first four books to have official scores in the Lexile score database from MetaMetrics. The Lexile scoring system is used by librarians, educators, and home schoolers across the country in order to match books with … Continue reading
The AZSF Reading Series launches at The Sip Coffee and Beer House in Scottsdale, Arizona on September 22 beginning at 7 p.m. The inaugural event will feature Tor Books authors Melinda Snodgrass, Jane Lindskold, and Victor Milan. Organizer Lee Whiteside … Continue reading
The opportunity to read a lot of interesting posts by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Beth Meacham, Irene Gallo, Alison Scott, Bruce Baugh, Jim Henley, John Scalzi, Jo Walton and others is reason enough to visit Tor.com’s newly-launched community site, but another … Continue reading