Archive for July, 2007

Darkness Makes Mythic Real

July 24 —

Best-selling SF/fantasy author Peter David told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Darkness of the Light, takes place in a distant future where the Earth has been overrun with races of beings previously thought purely mythical in nature.

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Curtain Parts On Murder

July 23 —

Multiple-award-winning author Brian Evenson, whose novel The Open Curtain is a finalist for this year’s International Horror Guild Award, told SCI FI Wire that the book is about a Mormon boy who accidentally uncovers information about a murder committed by a grandson of Mormon prophet Brigham Young.

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SFWA SkunkWorks

Check out the new public SFWA newsgroup on SFF.net, SFWA SkunkWorks. It’s mission, basically, is to alert members to “new trends in SF publishing, even ‘bleeding edge’ trends that were experimental and hadn’t proven themselves one way or another.”

Already, I found something useful: according to Tobias Buckell, AmazonConnect now allows you to run your regular blog’s feed through AmazonConnect, which means you can blog as normal and still reap the benefits of Amazon blogging without the extra hassle. I can’t actually find the information about this that Toby’s talking about, but that could be because I don’t have AmazonConnect setup for myself yet, since I don’t have any books available on Amazon (as of yet).

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Sheep Looks At Racism

July 20 —

Australian SF/fantasy author Ben Peek told SCI FI Wire that his book Black Sheep is a dystopian novel set in an alternate reality in which the world has been segregated into three mass races: African, Asian and Caucasian.

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War To End All Wars

July 18 —

SF author Kathleen Ann Goonan told SCI FI Wire that her latest novel, In War Times, is about World War II soldier Sam Dance, who is given plans to a mysterious device that supposedly has the power to end war.

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