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November 24, 2009
OryCon and Powell's SF Authorfest III Booksigning
This weekend I'll be Editing Guest of Honor at OryCon31, Oregon's Premier Science Fiction Convention, held November 27-29, 2009 at the Portland DoubleTree Hotel, 1000 NE Multnomah Street, Portland OR 97232. I'll be joining Author Guest of Honor Patricia Briggs, Artist Guest of Honor Lubov, Filk Guest of Honor Jeff Hitchin, and Special Guest Chris Lester. Then at the end of the weekend, I'll be appearing at Powell's massive SF Authorfest III Booksigning at the Powell's Books at Cedar Hill...
November 20, 2009
November 6, 2009
My Favorite Books
I'm interviewed at My Favorite Books today. Here's a taste:
Lately, I've been acquiring titles that I am thinking of as "post-steampunk," or rather, steampunk that has migrated out of Victorian settings into fantasy, urban fantasy, and other alternate historical settings. We'll have books in this category out in 2010 from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mike Resick, Tim Akers, George Mann and the writing team of Clay and Susan Griffith.
Those aren't post steampunk covers pictures. I just like the art.
Lately, I've been acquiring titles that I am thinking of as "post-steampunk," or rather, steampunk that has migrated out of Victorian settings into fantasy, urban fantasy, and other alternate historical settings. We'll have books in this category out in 2010 from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mike Resick, Tim Akers, George Mann and the writing team of Clay and Susan Griffith.
Those aren't post steampunk covers pictures. I just like the art.
October 28, 2009
Time, Unincorporated
Presenting: Time, Unincorporated 2: The Doctor Who Fanzine Archives: (Vol. 2: Writings on the Classic Series)
Which includes: Me, pontificating on the dark side of the Doctor.
Here's the book synopsis from Mad Norwegian Press (why is he mad?):
In Time, Unincorporated, the best essays and commentary from a range of Doctor Who fanzines are collected and here made available to a wider audience. In spirit, this series picks up the torch from Virgin's Licence Denied collection (1997), concentrating ...
October 20, 2009
Swords & Dark Magic - Table of Contents
As promised, the Table of Contents for
Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery
edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders
coming June 22, 2010
from Harper Eos
"Introduction: Check Your Dark Lord at the Door" - Lou Anders & Jonathan Strahan
"Goats of Glory" - Steven Erikson
"Tides Elba: A Tale of the Black Company" - Glen Cook
"Bloodsport" - Gene Wolfe
"The Singing Spear" - James Enge
"A Wizard of Wiscezan" - C.J. Cherryh
"A Rich Full Week" - K. J. Parker
"A Suitable Present for a Sorc...
Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery
edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders
coming June 22, 2010
from Harper Eos
"Introduction: Check Your Dark Lord at the Door" - Lou Anders & Jonathan Strahan
"Goats of Glory" - Steven Erikson
"Tides Elba: A Tale of the Black Company" - Glen Cook
"Bloodsport" - Gene Wolfe
"The Singing Spear" - James Enge
"A Wizard of Wiscezan" - C.J. Cherryh
"A Rich Full Week" - K. J. Parker
"A Suitable Present for a Sorc...
October 19, 2009
The Man Behind the Magic
Age
of
Misrule
and forthcoming
The Silver Skull (Swords of Albion)
author Mark Chadbourn is the latest guest on Shaun Farrell's magnificent podcast, Adventures in SciFi Publishing. Mark and Shaun discuss spy-fantasy, Mark's love of history and mythology, and how Mark balances a fulltime television career with novel writing demands.
October 15, 2009
John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats on the Colbert Report
October 14, 2009
Story, Story, Story
Fantastic interview with Leonard Nimoy over at SciFiChick.com. I'm particularly struck by this question and response:How do you feel about the current state of science fiction on TV and film?
Well, I'm concerned about the positioning of story in terms of importance. When I see a lot of explosions and a lot of chases, I'm not terribly impressed. I think there are three terribly important elements that must be given a priority position in science fiction as well as in any other kind of drama. T...
October 13, 2009
Swords & Dark Magic @ Amazon
Holy cow, look what's popped up for preorder at Amazon!
We'll be able to disclose the TOC very soon now too.
We'll be able to disclose the TOC very soon now too.
Under the Rose edited by Dave Hutchinson
Looks like I have a short story out. Or rather, a story Chris Roberson and I co-wrote is one of twenty-six tales in the new, Dave Hutchinson-edited anthology, Under the Rose,
just out from Norilana Books. Billed as "new anthology of cutting-edge speculative fiction from some of today's brightest literary talents," the anthology includes stories by Pauline E Dungate, Tim Lieder, William John Watkins, Mel Sterling, Jean Graham, Ken Rand, Teri Smith, Liza Granville, Ralan Conley, Stuart Jaffe, CL...
