Cons:
WorldCon begins Thursday, August 15, in Dublin, Ireland. You can follow it on Twitter.
Books and Writing:
Medium has a podcast with writer Neal Stephenson, talking about digital facial recognition, social media and space exploration.
Over at Crimereads, Via Mullholland makes the argument that William Gibson, Charles Stross and Neal Stephenson really wrote technothrillers. Why? Because over at Crimereads, they like technothrillers.
The Verge reviews JY Yang’s Tensorate series.
August 7th, 2019. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 2 comments |
Beneath the Twisted Trees by Bradley P. Beaulieu
I have to confess right up front, with apologies to the author, that I finished Bradley Beaulieu’s Beneath the Twisted Trees (2019) just before heading out on a 40+ day trip out west that meshed college visits (for my son, not me) and hiking, and I unfortunately left my marked-up copy at home. Which means a) I have no access to my notes and b) thanks to full days and being off the grid so much,
August 7th, 2019. Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Bradley P. Beaulieu | SFF Reviews | no comments |
SHORTS: In this week’s column we review several short fiction works that we’ve read recently, including three more of the current Retro Hugo nominees from 1943.
“Galatea” by Madeline Miller (2013, $3.99 on Kindle; anthologized in xo Orpheus, edited by Kate Bernheimer)
In the Roman myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, a sculptor creates a statue so beautiful that he falls in love with it. Aphrodite has mercy on him and turns the statue into a real woman,
August 7th, 2019. Kelly Lasiter, Kat Hooper and Tadiana Jones | Fritz Leiber, Leigh Brackett, Madeline Miller | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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