The Grand Masters’ Reading List
It would be tough to go wrong with this list of recommended Holiday reads by the Grand Masters of Science Fiction
Noticias Literatura 17-12
Three new offerings – a collection, a space opera and some cyberpunk
Congratulations to Ellen Datlow and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Announcing 2014’s Lifetime Achievement World Fantasy Award Winners
Ciencia Ficción Finlandesa: Dos Perspectivas, dos autores.
An interview with two of FInland’s best
Noticias Literatura 29-10
Lets get up to speed on Spanish language developments: a new blog, a third incarnation of Terra Nova, a new radio show featuring fiction by the author, and more
Finnish Science Fiction: Two Perspectives, Two Authors.
Finland has put itself on the genre map over the past couple of years; here’s an interview with two prominent members of a growing community
Review: Marcher by Chris Beckett (2014 Newcon Press edition)
Marcher is Chris Beckett’s second novel, now making its UK debut in a significantly revised edition from Newcon Press. When his first novel to be published in the UK, Dark Eden (2012), won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Chris Beckett seemed to many to have come out of nowhere. In-fact the author had been steadily publishing short stories since the beginning of the 1990s and his first book, The Turing Test (2008 – Elastic Press), had won the Edgehill Prize, the UK’s only national award for single-author short story collections…
Scide Splitters: The Great Explosion by Eric Frank Russell
Scide Splitters reviews Eric Frank Russell’s hilarious classic, The Great Explosion – possibly the funniest libertarian science fiction novel ever written.
Asni’s Art Blog: The Painting of Earthsea (part 1)
The first thing to note is that there don’t appear to be a lot of pictorial representations of Earthsea. The second thing is that artists seem to have a hard time visualizing the characters of the book the way they have been described by the author.
Noticias literatura 8-10
The release of José Antonio Cotrina’s Luna de locos and the latest issue of Premio Minotauro
Review: Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword
A review of the award-winningest SF novel and its sequel
Noticias Literatura 1-10
Spiral CF features author Joan Antoni Fernández, a recap of the Premio Ignotus awards, and a new newsletter from LiteraturaFantastica
Noticias literatura 17-9
We learn of a book trailer for a collection by Joan Antoni Fernández and the awarding of the Nosferatu Award to Weltschmerz by Óscar Pérez Varela – Crocop
KAMERON HURLEY, o la pasión por la verdad
A profile of this year’s break out Hugo Award winner, Kameron Hurley
Interview with Award Winning Author Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear is a prolific author who has won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2006 Locus award for Best first novel for Hammered, Scardown and Worldwired, the 2008 Theodore […]
“Mucho de lo que he aprendido sobre la escritura, ha sido leyendo las historias que otros crean”. Entrevista con la Ganadora del Hugo Elizabeth Bear
Entrevista con la Ganadora del Hugo Elizabeth Bear
CLASSIC SF MOVIES #2: George Pal’s Destination Moon
Steve reviews a seminal classic: Destination Moon, the first Hollywood SF blockbuster that respected both science and science fiction.
Book Review: Ringworld the Graphic Novel, Part 1
When I first discovered Larry Niven’s Known Space stories, I was thrilled; here was a future history (one of my favorite SF thingies) with a space opera crust surrounding a creamy hard-science center. I quickly […]
Retrospective: A Minority Verdict Against Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report
Upon release in 2002 the film Minority Report, nominally based on a story by Philip K. Dick, received almost universally ecstatic reviews. I was among the minority of dissenting voices, and what follows, my minority retort
CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN, o excavar en los temores más profundos
A profile of the multi-talented author Caitlin Kiernan.
Los Post Más Populares de Mayo.
Tanya rounds up the most popular posts of May for our Spanish speaking audience.
Philip K. Dick – 1977 French Television Interview
At some point during the Festival du livre de Science Fiction (Science Fiction Book Festival) in 1977, Yves Braux conducted a televised interview with SF master Philip K. Dick. I’m sure that others have found […]
Bulgarian Science Fiction: An Introduction
Radi Radev and John Dodds introduce us to the world of Bulgarian Science Fiction.
Award Winners: Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Rainbows End (2006) won the Hugo and Locus Awards for best novel and was nominated for the Prometheus Award. Sad to say there’s no pot of gold awaiting the reader at the end.
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