Awards:
The Parsec Awards for excellence in speculative fiction podcasts have been announced.
Conventions:
NewCon, a convention held in Portland, Oregon, has been cancelled.
Books and Writing:
I don’t know if these articles always comfort new writers, or if it’s schadenfreude, but these articles always make me feel better. Lit Hub reviews the most rejected famous books of all time.
It’s a new year, time to start planning all those fantasy trips I want to take.
January 3rd, 2018. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 6 comments |
The Year of the Geek by James Clarke
The Year of the Geek is a fact-a-day (sometimes more) calendar book filled with all types of sci-fi related information, frequently enhanced by or presented via a host of illustrations, charts, pictograms, and other sorts of infographics. What sort of facts? Birthdays (authors, directors, actors, fictional characters), death dates, release dates (films, books, TV shows), landmark moments, such as when The Doctor first met himself, and more. Many of the facts lead off into brief moments of exploration, either textually or graphically: which Spider-Man characters are heroes,
January 3rd, 2018. Bill Capossere´s rating: 3.5 | Non-fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
One thing’s for sure, The Power (2016 in the UK, Oct 2017 in the US) demands attention. Margaret Atwood has given it her blessing and I’ll eat my hat if The Power doesn’t have its own Netflix series sometime soon. Naomi Alderman could well be the next big name in subversive, feminist fiction.
The Power asks — what would happen if all women could physically dominate men? Over five years,
January 3rd, 2018. Katie Burton and Bill Capossere´s rating: 4.5 | Naomi Alderman | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The "body count" bothered me a bit less because being dead seemed more like an inconvenience than anything else... unlike…
Detailed, thoughtful review, Bill. I'm going to read it for two reasons. First, Karen Russell wrote it, and second, it…
this sounds like a fun one
These weird westerns are always interesting and have been popping up more in recent times (it seemed like there was…
Looking forward to reading the review.