I think I have too many RSS feeds in my reader; I keep getting behind and then leaving things unread to deal with “later” — but then there’s too much new stuff I haven’t even looked at, which pushes “later” much further than I’d like. That’s all prologue to the fact that these awards came…
Sadly, and yet appropriately, from Locus itself: Locus publisher, editor, and co-founder Charles N. Brown, 72, died peacefully in his sleep July 12, 2009 on his way home from Readercon. Charles Nikki Brown was born June 24, 1937 in Brooklyn NY, where he grew up. He attended the City College of New York, taking time…
Comics Links The New York Times declares that Britain is finally embracing the graphic novel. Well, good for them! Inside Pulse apparently has a story about comics, but some kind of SQL error is preventing me from actually reading it. Perhaps simply knowing it exists will give some readers a tiny bit of pleasure. Publishers…
Comics Links Hipster Dad thinks that there should be an Inferior Five collection. Comic Book Resources talks to Christos Gage. Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog presents more evidence that Bob Kanigher was a mad genius. Greg Burgas of Comics Should Be Good reviews this week’s comics, starting with Batman Annual #26. Brian Cronin of CSBG reviews the…
No links came with obvious top-of-the-post illustrations today, so, instead, let’s focus on the Monday-ness of today, and think demotivation. Comics Links Comic Book Resources looks at webcartoonists at Wizard World Chicago. Wizard talks to Avatar Press artist Jacen Burroughs. Comic Book Resources interviews Hugh Sterbakov, writer of Freshmen. CBR also chats with artist Adrian…
The official Comics Should Be Good “Reason to Love Comics” for Monday was my man Keith Giffen. (“My man” in the sense that I agree that he’s totally awesome, not that I’ve ever met the guy.) And once again, I must demand Ambush Bug trade paperbacks to make the world the kind of place it…
USA Today stalks the elusive Fanboy. Locus Online lists new paperback editions of SF/Fantasy books that they saw in June. Matthew Cheney thinks about the latest eruption of the what-is-SF-and-what-isn’t discussion. A highly scientific investigation into the age-old struggle between pirates and ninjas. [via Chris Roberson] tSF Diplomat thinks hard about online book reviewing and…
Jennifer Fallon loves Wile E. Coyote, and doesn’t care who knows it. (She also lists Chuck Jones’s very interesting rules for Roadrunner cartoons, which show just how much of a brilliant formal exercise those shorts were.) But Wouldn’t It Be Cool? lists nine reasons that he reads SF. The Philadelphia Inquirer uses the Harry Potter…
Fantasy Book Critic reviews Warren Ellis’s first novel, Crooked Little Vein. BestSF has reviewed a few magazines this week: A recent issue of Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest F&SF’s May 2007 issue Interzone’s issue 210 Don D’Amassa’s Critical Mass has new reviews on the Science Fiction page, including Blake Nelson’s young adult novel They…
Time magazine, which manages to get so much wrong so much of the time, oddly is very accurate and interesting on the subject of LOLcats. [via The Beat] Not science fiction, but only because it didn’t happen: the British military is denying sending giant, man-eating badgers to terrify the citizen of the Iraqi city of…
Bookninja interviews Guy Gavriel Kay, author of Ysabel. Then they flip out and kill a whole lot of people, ‘cause that’s what ninjas have to do. [via Locus Online] Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing’s twenty-fifth podcast features an interview with author Walter H. Hunt, plus publishing news and the first installment of “Ask a Writer,”…
The new episode of The Future And You went up for the beginning of the month; it includes conversations with Battlestar Galactica cast member Bodie Olmos, Walt (The Bananaslug) Boyes from Jim Baen’s Universe magazine, and the authors Robert Buettner, Mike Resnick, Randal L. Schwartz and Stoney Compton. How can you not want to hear…
