- I have a plan, and the plan is this: I’m going to read one of the short fiction Hugo nominees each week, and post about it here in the hopes of sparking a discussion like that about “Divining Light“. I’m going to start with the novelettes, since they’re all online; I’ll post a reminder about whichever story I’m reading on Friday, and the discussion post on Sunday afternoon, since that seemed to work well before. Feel free to play along at home.
- Events! This week’s BSFA London meeting will be a panel discussion of the BSFA Award nominees. With Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Alastair Reynolds and Adam Roberts. Also, in two weeks, the Royal Institution has a discussion about the science in science fiction
- Moar awards, part one: Some of you may have noticed pingbacks from Starship Sofa, indicating that you can now listen to audio versions of three of the BSFA Award short fiction nominees: “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang; “Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment” by M. Rickert; and “Little Lost Robot” by Paul McAuley
- Other Clarke award bits: Sam Jordison in the Guardian books blog; an interview with Tom Hunter; and a photo of the judges (for those who may be curious)
- Hugo nominees reactions: Locus Online analysis; Abigail; Best Graphic Story is broken; not enough fantasy; too much YA?; and John Scalzi on reading entrails
- The Beeb does the mind-meld thing, asking how sf moves with the times; responses from Ken MacLeod, Paul Cornell, Iain Banks and Ian Watson
- James Enge on the Nebula short fiction nominees: short stories, novelettes and novellas
- A very interesting post about The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- The Frank Collymore Literary Endowment, for unpublished Barbabos writers, has gone to the author of a fantasy novel
- Jonathan Strahan is reading through a list of the all time top 40 sf/f short stories, starting with “That Only a Mother” by Judith Merrill
- An interview with Sarah Hall
- Jenny Turner on Twilight and Breaking Dawn, in the LRB
- Abigail Nussbaum reviews the pilot of Kings
- Adam Roberts on The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod
- Paul Raven on Mind Over Ship by David Marusek
- Nic Clarke on The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas and Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- Graham Sleight on Ursula K Le Guin’s Yesterday’s Tomorrows
- M John Harrison on The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman
- Another response to Adam Roberts’ review of Incandescence
- Reviews of Xiaolu Guo’s UFO In Her Eyes: one, two, three, four, five
- And old news, but: a New Crobuzon role-playing game?
March 23, 2009 at 4:03 pm
It is interesting that the Westeros faction seems to think An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham is the obvious fantasy omission from the Hugos.
March 23, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Are you surprised, or is that another kind of interesting? The Long Price Quartet has been notching up a fair amount of acclaim from all quarters, after all. It’s certainly on my TBR for this year, given that the last volume is out soon.
March 23, 2009 at 4:16 pm
I’m surprised and not displeased. I hadn’t realised it was picking up wide acclaim. I read the first one and thought it nice enough, although it didn’t particularly make me want to pick up A Betrayal in Winter. Better than a lot of the toss out there though.
And I’ve just read that Tor.com YA thread. Oh dear.
March 23, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Mark me down as a fan who identifies with sf more than f, and sees An Autumn War‘s absence as an obvious oversight.
March 24, 2009 at 8:37 am
The discussion on Resnick’s dreadful ‘Article of Faith’ should make for interesting reading…
March 28, 2009 at 9:58 am
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