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coalescentToday's assortment:
A meme via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
andrewducker: look at my icons and tell me which, if any, you like best, and why.
A fascinating post by Matthew Cheney on teaching Neal Gaiman's American Gods to High School students.
A somewhat melancholy article in the Independent, on the effects of writing for posterity but publishing for now.
A charming story (less than 500 words) by Stuart Carter called 'Tell Stephen Baxter Not To Worry'. On a slightly more surreal Baxter-related note, see this comic.
Angel news: S5 DVDs are due in february. When I saw this, I was terribly worried. I don't want Spike on the cover of the DVDs of my show, dammit! Fortunately the UK edition is much better.
An interview with Tony Ballantyne at Infinity Plus. The followup to Recusion will be Capacity, and after that Divergence. And speaking of followups, Amazon claim to already have a cover for No Present Like Time by Steph Swainston. It's not a patch on the cover for The Year of Our War, though.
There's something niggling at me, in the back of my head, inspired variously by Geneva's review of Cloud Atlas, my disagreement with the same, Jonathan Strahan's post about what those who write about sf should be doing, Jeff Noon's phrase 'post-futurism' andswisstone's writing on Vurt (also here). But I haven't quite worked out what it is that I want to say, yet.
A full list of Guests of Honour for Concussion, the 2006 Eastercon.
Note to self--at some point, read these stories: Life In Stone by Tim Pratt; 'Is You/Is You Ain't' by Michael Canfield; 'Anda's Game' by Cory Doctorow; the last month or so of SCIFICTION. Oh, and there's going to be a dead-tree SCIFICTION anthology. Woohoo!
Mind you, it's reached that point in the year when I have to go into reading triage: when I admit I'm not going to get through everything I would like to get through by the end of the year. Currently, I absolutely want to get through Swiftly by Adam Roberts, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Wizard by Gene Wolfe, Air by Geoff Ryman, Set This House In Order by Matt Ruff, City of Pearl by Karen Traviss, Empire by Niall Ferguson, Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, the second issue of PostScripts, the July (all-american special issue) of F&SF, and the Different Worlds anthology. But it's not going to happen, is it?
A meme via
andrewducker: look at my icons and tell me which, if any, you like best, and why.A fascinating post by Matthew Cheney on teaching Neal Gaiman's American Gods to High School students.
A somewhat melancholy article in the Independent, on the effects of writing for posterity but publishing for now.
A charming story (less than 500 words) by Stuart Carter called 'Tell Stephen Baxter Not To Worry'. On a slightly more surreal Baxter-related note, see this comic.
Angel news: S5 DVDs are due in february. When I saw this, I was terribly worried. I don't want Spike on the cover of the DVDs of my show, dammit! Fortunately the UK edition is much better.
An interview with Tony Ballantyne at Infinity Plus. The followup to Recusion will be Capacity, and after that Divergence. And speaking of followups, Amazon claim to already have a cover for No Present Like Time by Steph Swainston. It's not a patch on the cover for The Year of Our War, though.
There's something niggling at me, in the back of my head, inspired variously by Geneva's review of Cloud Atlas, my disagreement with the same, Jonathan Strahan's post about what those who write about sf should be doing, Jeff Noon's phrase 'post-futurism' and
swisstone's writing on Vurt (also here). But I haven't quite worked out what it is that I want to say, yet.A full list of Guests of Honour for Concussion, the 2006 Eastercon.
Note to self--at some point, read these stories: Life In Stone by Tim Pratt; 'Is You/Is You Ain't' by Michael Canfield; 'Anda's Game' by Cory Doctorow; the last month or so of SCIFICTION. Oh, and there's going to be a dead-tree SCIFICTION anthology. Woohoo!
Mind you, it's reached that point in the year when I have to go into reading triage: when I admit I'm not going to get through everything I would like to get through by the end of the year. Currently, I absolutely want to get through Swiftly by Adam Roberts, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Wizard by Gene Wolfe, Air by Geoff Ryman, Set This House In Order by Matt Ruff, City of Pearl by Karen Traviss, Empire by Niall Ferguson, Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, the second issue of PostScripts, the July (all-american special issue) of F&SF, and the Different Worlds anthology. But it's not going to happen, is it?
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Date: 2004-11-17 06:09 am (UTC)If you mention the story and I know it I will probably be sad for missing the reference.
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Date: 2004-11-17 06:20 am (UTC)The reference is that someone suggested that any story with a space elevator was, by definition, science fiction, then someone else said that Ted Chiang is a science fiction writer but has never writte about a space elevator. Then someone else said that the tower of babel should count, and an icon was born.
Chiang has published one collection of short fiction, Stories of Your Life and Others. It's utterly brilliant, and as soon as the paperback hits the shelves in february, you should buy it. :)
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Date: 2004-11-17 07:20 am (UTC)