Tag: science fiction

More on Heinlein

Still more remark on Robert A. Heinlein, this time by NASA’s head of legislative affairs, Bill Brunner: The first real novel I ever read was Rocketship Galileo. After that, I read as much Heinlein as I could find. I can honestly say that, as a young black male raised by a single mom, RAH shaped …

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The proposal for William Gibson’s new novel

Yesterday I submitted two novel proposals to my agent, Ethan Ellenberg (well, three, actually, but only two were new). One is for a sequel to my upcoming novel Marseguro, tentatively titled Terra Inseguro, and one is for a fantasy novel tentatively titled Magebane. (The third is for a sequel to Lost in Translation, which DAW …

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The Heinlein Centennial…

…is upon us! The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert A. Heinlein takes place in Kansas City this weekend. You can find out all about it here. It’s certainly got an impressive guest list: NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin Spider Robinson, co-author (with Robert Heinlein) of Variable Star and much more …

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Ursula K. Le Guin on writing genre fiction:

In the latest issue of Dave Langford’s excellent ‘zine Ansible, Ursula K. Le Guin responds to this quote: “Michael Chabon has spent considerable energy trying to drag the decaying corpse of genre fiction out of the shallow grave where writers of serious literature abandoned it.”‘ Ruth Franklin (Slate, 8 May 2007)Her answer is lengthy and …

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An appreciation of Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein was undoubtedly my favorite author at one time of my life (I devoured the Heinlein “juveniles,” liked some of his mid-career adult stuff, was left cold by Stranger in a Strange Land, and kept reading his later stuff mostly hoping that it would somehow enthrall me as the earlier stuff did, which …

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Decades of science fiction magazine cover art

Oh, this is yummy: a gallery of cover art from Astounding/Analog, going back to 1930 (that’s the cover from April, 1930, to the left). (Via SF Signal.)

John Scalzi interviews Robert J. Sawyer…

…and you can read it here.

Why I can’t really be called a Star Wars fan:

I don’t hate Star Wars enough.

Do particles communicate backward in time?

John Cramer, who writes the “Alternate View” columns for Analog Science Fiction and Fact (one of the “Big Three” science fiction magazines, the others being Asimov’s Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) has drummed up enough private funding to proceed with an experiment to test his theory of “quantum retrocausality”: The …

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Saskatchewan author up for major science fiction award

Alas, it isn’t me. Nevertheless, congratulations to Barbara Sapergia, whose novel Dry (Coteau Books) is one of the finalists for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of 2006. (I suspect Barbara doesn’t self-identify as a science fiction writer, based on her biography on the Coteau site, so this may …

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Become a science fiction writer…

…and help save civilization: Looking to prevent the next terrorist attack, the Homeland Security Department is tapping into the wild imaginations of a group of self-described “deviant” thinkers: science-fiction writers. As I like to say, science fiction is a vaccine against future shock.

SF Canada website updated

I’ve done a small update to the SF Canada website: the most interesting feature is a long interview with Nancy Kress, conducted by Celu Amberstone. Current news is posted regularly on the SF Canada news blog. SF Canada is the professional association of speculative fiction writers in Canada. I’m the administrative assistant and webmaster.

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