Right now, I’m scheduled to be on four panels at Denvention 3, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention, August 6 to 10 in Denver. You can look for me on: Reading Tolkien in the early years, Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. Writers reading from their juvenalia, Thursday, 10 a.m. Canadian Science Fiction, Friday, 10 a.m. Working with …
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What is science fiction?" A definitive answer at last!
John C. Wright* nails down the ever-pesky definition of science fiction: Science Fiction is that genre of cognitive estrangement in a post-Gothic mode, utilizing a willing suspension of disbelief, transcending anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, where spacemen, raygun in fist, soar through outer space with a glamorous brunette Space-Babes in their brawny arms. He offers extensive …
What is science fiction?" A definitive answer at last!
John C. Wright* nails down the ever-pesky definition of science fiction: Science Fiction is that genre of cognitive estrangement in a post-Gothic mode, utilizing a willing suspension of disbelief, transcending anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, where spacemen, raygun in fist, soar through outer space with a glamorous brunette Space-Babes in their brawny arms. He offers extensive …
What is science fiction?" A definitive answer at last!
John C. Wright* nails down the ever-pesky definition of science fiction: Science Fiction is that genre of cognitive estrangement in a post-Gothic mode, utilizing a willing suspension of disbelief, transcending anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, where spacemen, raygun in fist, soar through outer space with a glamorous brunette Space-Babes in their brawny arms. He offers extensive …
Photo of the Day: Marseguro in hardcover!
Look what came in the mail today: a copy of the Science Fiction Book Club edition of Marseguro. It looks great in hardcover. (Also, as you can see, much, much bigger…) More photos here.
Photo of the Day: Marseguro in hardcover!
Look what came in the mail today: a copy of the Science Fiction Book Club edition of Marseguro. It looks great in hardcover. (Also, as you can see, much, much bigger…) More photos here.
Hope for the future
One more post about my time as writer-in-residence at Michael A. Riffel High School. I was thrilled, after I gave my usual presentation in an advanced placement English class, to be asked by a student, “So, which of the Big Three is your favorite?” And, yes, he meant Heinlein, Asimov, and Clarke, all of which …
"Grow up, SF people!" says Richard Morgan
SF writer Richard Morgan has a terrific post about the curious need within the SF&F community to denigrate those within the community who write or read stuff that we, ourselves, might not choose to write or read. Me, I’m pretty eclectic in my SF&F tastes, as both a writer and a reader, so I’m with …
My KeyCon schedule
I’ll be at KeyCon in Winnipeg over the Victoria Day weekend, and they’re going to keep me busy! Here’s my schedule (still tentative at this point); if you’re attending, seek me out and say hi! Friday9pm to 10pm: Mundane SF and Space Opera with Hayden Trenholm. Saturday10am to 11am: Aliens in SF with Nick DiCharioNoon …
Announcing the Hayden Trenholm interview
I’m currently interviewing Aurora Award nominee Hayden Trenholm on the discussion board of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Facebook group, and will be all week. You can follow along over there (if you’re on Facebook), or check back here: I’ll be posting the interview here as it develops.
The Guardian arts blog says nice things about science fiction fans
To whit: Few in our contemporary culture spend as much time as the readers – and writers – of SF regularly considering the repercussions of technological and social change, or environmental transformation, or the ideological inflection in popular cultural products – no matter how frequently the press and politicians comment on such matters. Thank you …
A nice little Amazon reader review of Marseguro:
One D. Raymond of Weld County, Colorado, writes: This book was a good science fiction read. The author develops a couple of traditional themes, what it means to be human and colonizing a new world away from the politics of the old world. It has good action scenes, smarmy villains that you love to hate …
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