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"Pride" Makes Nebula Awards Shortlist

A very big congratulations to Mary A. Turzilo, whose story “Pride” from Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge,makes the Nebula Awards Shortlist for best short story. You can read “Pride” online as a PDF too. Here’s the full category:

  • “Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse”, Andy Duncan, (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)
  • “Titanium Mike Saves the Day”, David D Levine, (F&SF, Apr07)
  • “Captive Girl”, Jennifer Pelland, (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Oct06 (Fall06 issue — #2))
  • “Always”, Karen Joy Fowler, (Asimov’s, May07 (Apr/May07 issue))
  • “Pride”, Mary Turzillo, (Fast Forward 1, Pyr, February 2007)
  • “The Story of Love”, Vera Nazarian, (Salt of the Air, Prime Books, Sep06)

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Richard Morgan — Best Literature Picks of 2007

Over on Green Man Review, Richard Morgan posts his Best Literature Picks of 2007, where he asks, “What was 2007 good for, literarily speaking?” and looks at literature, poems, graphic novels, even one videogame, that make an “elevated grade.” Of Ian McDonald’s Brasyl,he says, “lush, sweeping in scope, studded with technological gems and as brightly sparkling as the cityscapes two thirds of the book take place in, this is a worthy follow up to Macdonald’s award winning River of Gods;…Brasyl comes on at you with the rapid percussive beat of carnaval, and like the itch of samba in your hips, will not be denied.”

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Kay Kenyon on the Road

Kay Kenyon (Bright of the Sky, A World Too Near) is back from RadCon. Here is her report.

Missed seeing Kay? Then you can catch her at one of these:

ConDor, Feb 29-Mar 2, San Diego, CA.

OmegaCon, Mar 13- 16, Birmingham, AL

A Book For All Seasons, Saturday, Mar 22 1:00-3:00, Leavenworth, WA, signing.

Read It Again Books, Monday, Mar 24, 6:30 p.m.
11 Palouse St, Wenatchee, WA (509) 662-2093, signing

University Bookstore, Apr 9, 7:00 p.m., Seattle, WA, signing with Louise Marley also known as Toby Bishop of Airs Beneath the Moon fame.

Readercon, July 17 – 20, Burlington MA

World Fantasy, Oct 30 – Nov 2, Calgary, AB Canada

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Moorcock & Picacio in Texas Signing

Michael Moorcock and John Picacio will be signing copies of the new, illustrated editon of Elric: The Stealer of Souls at Austin Books this Saturday. Copies of The Metatemporal Detective, with its matching Picacio cover illustration, will also be on hand, I’m told.

Details:

Austin Books
5002 North Lamar Boulevard
Austin, TX 78751
Austin Books · info@austinbooks.com · (512) 454-4197

Saturday, February 23rd, 4pm-7pm

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Erudite, Intriguing, Perceptive & Disquieting

Publishers Weekly, on Theodore Judson’s forthcoming The Martian General’s Daughter:

“Despite its pulpish title, this erudite and intriguing novel is more in the tradition of Robert Graves than Edgar Rice Burroughs. …Judson (Fitzpatrick’s War) chronicles the last glories of the empire as viewed by Black’s illegitimate daughter, whose own rise from unwanted embarrassment to valued adviser and aide parallels her father’s career. The story might be familiar to today’s readers from the film Gladiator, but the parallels it draws between Roman and American cultures are both perceptive and disquieting.”

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SFFWorld’s Favorite Books of 2007

SFFWorld’s readers have voted for their favorite books of 2007, and we’re thrilled that Before They Are Hangedtops the list (this refers to the UK edition, as the US edition was just released). What’s more, Joe Abercrombie appears twice, with The Blade Itselftying with the wonderful Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamora at # 5. Here’s the full list:

  1. Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie (105 points)
  2. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (96 points)
  3. Reaper’s Gale by Steven Erikson (63 points)
  4. Renegade’s Magic by Robin Hobb (54 points)
  5. The Lies of Locke Lamora* by S. Lynch & The Blade Itself* by J. Abercrombie (41 points)
  6. The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien (32 points)
  7. Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (31 points)
  8. The Thousandfold Thought* by R. Scott Bakker (28 points)
  9. The Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M. Valente

Also delighted to see that The Devil’s Right Hand author Lilith Saintcrow praises The Blade Itself on her blog, Writer on the Dark Side: “This is fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, but without the complete lack of verite most fantasy is infected with… There’s wizards, mythology, kings, princes, a self-absorbed nobleman, ancient legends, fencing–all written so well I was grinding my teeth with envy whenever I HAD to put the book down. This is a fantastic start to a trilogy, and I can’t wait to get the next two books so I can see what happens next. There are some tropes, true, but they’re handled so deftly and characterised so beautifully they take on the status of old friends instead of worn-out archetypes. In short, I can’t say enough good things about this book, and I highly recommend it.”

Thank you, Lilith. Wait till you get to book two!

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Midnight Baseball and the Waldo

SFSignal runs an interview with Mike Resnick, of which my favorite bit is:

Science fiction is often accused of being The Great Predictor. Which predictions did Golden Age science fiction get right? Which ones were way off the mark?

MR: In terms of essentially trivial things, it predicted plastics, night baseball, waldoes, and half a hundred other things early fans used to point to with pride. I think it missed most of our major breakthroughs: the fall of the Soviet Empire, the cure for polio, the huge influx of Hispanics into the USA, the fact that cancer is less of a killer these days and more of a chronic disease, the near-extinction of the passenger trains that made it possible for us to populate the continent, the emergence of HIV, even the proliferation of computers. The most important off-the-mark was the fact that almost no one predicted that once we got into space, reached the Moon, landed on Mars, the public would be totally uninterested and apathetic.

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Can You Handle Another Best of the Year List?

SFSite has posted their “Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2007: Readers’ Choice” and I’m delighted to see Joe Abercrombie’s Before They Are Hangedat number five (here for the UK edition, as our edition was just released this month and hasn’t found its way into all venues yet), as well as, not surprisingly, Ian McDonald’s Brasylat number three.

Of the latter, they say, “McDonald masterfully explores some key sfnal concepts and pivotal alternative science. Wrap your head around this book if you want to see what truly ingenious science fiction can look like.”

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Locus Online: 2007 SF/F/H Books on Year’s Best Lists

Locus Online has tabulated the science fiction, fantasy and horror books that have appeared on various year’s best lists, inluding Amazon.com, Publishers Weekly, Time Magazine, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, Library Journal, Salon.com, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times, as well as genre publications SF Site, Bookgasm, Fantasy Magazine, and Strange Horizons. Also tabulated are Jeff VanderMeer and Claude Lalumière’s essays for Locus Online. The present the 12 most cited works, and I’m very proud to see both Ian McDonald’s Brasyl(appearing on five lists) and Kay Kenyon’s Bright of the Sky(3 lists). Of course, if they’d included the recent American Library Association’s Reading List Awards, then those numbers would have been 6 and 4!

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