Marginalia
Jul. 12th, 2004 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coalescentProbably old to many, but new to me: an entertaining discussion about the definition of sci-fi. And whilst I'm on old hobby-horses, how about an article on the hostility of lit fans towards media fans (with some SF vs fantasy snobbery thrown in for good measure)?
An article observing the move of sf TV to cable. Has anyone seen or heard anything about 4400?
More worthily (...), Jeff Vandermeer suggests summer reading from the edges of genre; and Daniel Blackston provides an essay on Jeffrey Ford's Nebula-winning novellette, 'The Empire of Ice-Cream', here
Chris Priest reviews River of Gods, which after slipping down last month is finally back at the top of my to-read pile, because...
I've most recently read Tony Ballantyne's debut novel, Recursion. Black humour, social satire, layered ambiguity, creepy Von Neuman machines and real, serious science fiction Ideas in only 350 pages: I liked it. A review will be appearing on Diverse Books in due course.
An article observing the move of sf TV to cable. Has anyone seen or heard anything about 4400?
More worthily (...), Jeff Vandermeer suggests summer reading from the edges of genre; and Daniel Blackston provides an essay on Jeffrey Ford's Nebula-winning novellette, 'The Empire of Ice-Cream', here
Chris Priest reviews River of Gods, which after slipping down last month is finally back at the top of my to-read pile, because...
I've most recently read Tony Ballantyne's debut novel, Recursion. Black humour, social satire, layered ambiguity, creepy Von Neuman machines and real, serious science fiction Ideas in only 350 pages: I liked it. A review will be appearing on Diverse Books in due course.
