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Category Archives: News and Other SFF-Related Ramblings
Lookin’ Good: Academic Exercises by K.J. Parker
If my experiences with author K.J. Parker and publisher Subterranean Press are any indicator, Academic Exercises will be a gorgeous book in every sense of the word. As far as I know, this will be the first ever collection of K.J. Parker’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged K.J. Parker, Subterranean Press
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2013: The Year In Review
Time to take a look back at 2013! I managed to read 82 books this year, up by about 20% from last year but still a bit disappointing because I read most of them in the first half of the … Continue reading →
Under The Radar: Janny Wurts (at Tor.com)
Today you can find my newest Under The Radar post over at Tor.com: For this installment of Under The Radar—the biweekly column where we highlight books that have unjustly gone unnoticed—I’m going to stretch our definition a bit by highlighting Janny … Continue reading →
At the Booksmugglers and at Tor.com: My 2013 Favorites!
Today you can find me at Tor.com, where I’m part of the 2013 Reviewers’ Choice listing my three favorite books of 2013. This article also contains a huge amount of great book recommendations from the rest of Tor.com’s excellent team … Continue reading →
Round-tabled and Mind-melded
Today you can find me as a participant in two fascinating discussions on other websites: Over at Tor.com, Liz Bourke asked me to participate in a roundtable discussion following up on her recent Reading, Writing, Radicalization post. This ended up … Continue reading →
Lookin’ Good: The Book of Apex: Volume 4 of Apex Magazine (ed. Lynne M. Thomas)
It is, it seems, the season for anthologies. In the past few weeks, I have come across a stack of gorgeous-looking anthologies, from the impressive tome Twenty-First Century Science Fiction to not one but two gorgeous-looking Jurassic London collections (The Book … Continue reading →
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The Sunlit Horse by Yoon Ha Lee
I recently became a patron of the arts! Well, sort of. You see, Yoon Ha Lee (who earlier this year released the utterly brilliant short story collection Conservation of Shadows – here’s my review) decided to raise some money by … Continue reading →
Lookin’ Good: Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, Eds. Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond is a new anthology offering a generous 40 pieces of short fiction by such authors as Lauren Beukes, Tobias Buckell, Junot Díaz, Kiini Ibura Salaam, N.K. Jemisin, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Sofia Samatar and Nisi Shawl, just to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bill Campbell, Edward Austin Hall, Rosarium Publishing
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Talking With Tom: A Conversation Between Tom Doherty and Brandon Sanderson
Today Tor.com posted the fourth installment in my Talking with Tom series, which covers a series of conversations between Tor publisher Tom Doherty and some of the authors he’s worked with over the years. In this post, Tom chats with … Continue reading →
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Tagged Brandon Sanderson, Tom Doherty, Tor
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Sketched Concept Map for The Thousand Names by Django Wexler
I really don’t often use the terms “super-exclusive” or “extra-special”, but in this case. well… Thanks to Django Wexler, whose excellent debut fantasy The Thousand Names I reviewed here a few weeks ago, I am pleased to present the author’s … Continue reading →
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