I’m interviewed again on the always-wonderful Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing podcast at the site’s new location here. I’m talking about the purpose of cover art, after an interview with the wonderful Kelly Link.
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I’m very happy to announce that my anthology Fast Forward 2 is set for an October 2008 publication date. I delivered the manuscript to my production manager just a few weeks ago. I think it’s even stronger than Fast Forward 1,
One of the highlights of the second volume will undoubtedly be a 32,000 word collaboration between Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow. “True Names” is a tale of galactic wars between vast, post-Singularity intelligences that are competing to corner the universe’s supply of computation before the heat-death of the universe. The title is, of course, a homage to Vernor Vinge’s famous story of the same name. Writing on his blog, Rosenbaum says that “This story came out of a conversation at the Hugo Loser’s party at Worldcon 2002 — the part about ‘the second law of thermodynamics as the ultimate party-spoiler in a transhuman utopia of self-spawning consciousness’; it acquired shades of Jane Austen, Voltaire, megamillion year ideological warfare, gender theory, coming-of-age story, and musical theater along the way.”
For those wanting a preview, Rosenbaum and Doctorow have begun podcasting “True Names” here on Cory’s site. Now here’s a peak at the rest of the TOC:
Introduction: The Age of Accelerating Returns – Lou Anders
Catherine Drewe – Paul Cornell
Cyto Couture – Kay Kenyon
The Sun Also Explodes – Chris Nakashima-Brown
The Kindness of Strangers – Nancy Kress
Alone With An Inconvenient Companion – Jack Skillingstead
True Names – Cory Doctorow & Benjamin Rosenbaum
Molly’s Kids – Jack McDevitt
Adventure – Paul McAuley
Not Quite Alone in the Dream Quarter – Mike Resnick & Pat Cadigan
An Eligible Boy – Ian McDonald
SeniorSource – Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Migration – Karl Schroeder and Tobias S. Buckell
Long Eyes – Jeff Carlson
The Gambler – Paolo Bacigalupi
Excited?
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Mel’s Take, a review segment on the podcast Escape from Cubicle 17, launched with a review of Alexis Glynn Latner’s Hurricane Moon.
“The characters are very well-developed. It’s a very interesting premise and a very good story…. I found it impossible to put down, once we got to Planet Green. …there’s a very good human story and a romantic element to this novel.” 4 1/2 out of 5 stars
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Kay Kenyon is interviewed on the latest installment of The Small World Podcast. As host Bazooka Joe says:
We discuss her move to Wenatchee, Washington; the plot of Bright of the Sky;
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Author Ian McDonald is interviewed in the Culture Northern Ireland podcast. He talks about how Star Wars is rubbish, how a book is a personalized virtual reality experience that doesn’t need batteries, his new novel Brasyl,
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Sean Williams, author of The Hanging Mountains
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Ian McDonald, author of Brasyl,
“We discuss what Brasyl is about; which part of the triptych came first and how he wove in the other two braids of the story; his previous novel, River of Gods; Suba’s São Paulo Confessions; pitching reality television programs like his protagonist, Marcalina Hoffman; Moacyr Barbosa, the man who made Brazil cry; John Hemming’s book, Red Gold; Jean-Babtiste Falcon, inventor of the earliest computer?; themes of exploitation; my interview with Lou Anders, editor of Pyr; the pressure of the expectations to have all his future novels take place in ‘exotic’ locations; why he avoided writing about Carnival; reviews of Brasyl in Brazil; how Ireland has become boring; programs that his character Marcalina pitched and developed that he might have enjoyed watching; how the Q-blades in Brasyl work.”
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I’m back again on the fabulous Adventures in SciFi Publishing podcast. Shaun Farrell is introducing a new feature called From the Editor’s Desk, so after the Vicki Petterssen interview, Shaun runs my opinion of free online content and related. Shaun asked me several questions, which he plans to space across several Editor’s Desk segments, so expect more of these in the coming weeks!
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Jeff Vandermeer takes an unusual tack for a literary blog in his first Amazon Bookstore Book Blog about Pyr’s books: music!
Jeff talks about the suggested soundtrack Ian McDonald supplies for his latest novel, Brasyl,
To round it off, Jeff asked me who would score a soundtrack for the entire Pyr line if such a thing were possible. My answer got truncated, so with Jeff’s kind permission and tongue firmly in cheek, I’ll run the whole thing here:
From the get go, I’ve wanted Pyr to have both a respect for speculative fiction’s illustrious history and an eye on the future.
I’ve maintained that you can have mild blowing concepts and good characters in the same book, action/adventure with sensawunder, literary sensibilities with mass appeal – that commercially-viable action set pieces did not preclude asking the big questions or aiming for the stars. One can have their cake and eat it too.
I’ve mixed old masters like Moorcock, Resnick and Silverberg with new voices like Edelman, Robson and Williams.
And we’ve published everything from epic fantasy to space opera to literary soft-science SF to urban fantasy to new weird to wacky sci-fantasy with elves on motorbikes.
I’ve tried to publish a diverse line where the only thru line is quality.
Obviously, the Pyr soundtrack can only be scored by one musician.
A man who can be as deep and mysterious as 2001 and as relevant and dangerous as 1984, or as surface and pop as fashion and dance, sound and music.
He writes about sex and drugs and gender issues, and spacemen and aliens and technological innovation slash alienation.
He has been there first in glam, soul, new age, fusion and a dozen other muscial genres.
He never does the same thing twice and he never runs out of imagination and he never gets tired.
He puts out fire with gasoline.
He is the Man Who Fell to Earth, the Man Who Sold the World, the Laughing Gnome, the Goblin King.
Obviously, only David Bowie could possibly score Pyr.
The wonderful Small World Podcast, which features “interviews with people from all walks of life from all over the planet,” has just uploaded an interview with yours truly. We cover a host of subjects, including:
You can follow the link above or download an mp3 directly here.
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