Archive for 2010
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2010
Lightspeed Magazine, the new online science fiction magazine I’m editing, is launching on June 1, 2010, and we’ve now finalized the fiction selections for the first issue:
- “I’m Alive, I Love You, I’ll See You in Reno” by Vylar Kaftan
- “The Cassandra Project” by Jack McDevitt
- “Cats in Victory” by David Barr Kirtley
- “Amaryllis” by Carrie Vaughn
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 9: Vampires! Werewolves! Unicorns!
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 8: Magic! Medicine! Fantic Episy!
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 8: Magic! Medicine! Fantic Episy!
Blake Charlton, author of Spellwright, joins us to talk about fantasy, dyslexia, and medical school. Dave and John discuss magic and medicine in fiction.
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 7: Escape Pod! Those Voices You Hear! Unabridged!
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 7: Escape Pod! Those Voices You Hear! Unabridged!
Steve Eley—editor of Escape Pod, the internet’s most popular science fiction podcast—stops by this week and we discuss the very promising future of audio fiction.
Locus Awards Annual Poll
Locus Magazine recently issued its annual recommended reading list, which features some of my work:
- Federations, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Prime Books)
- “Twilight of the Gods”, John C. Wright (Federations)
- “My She”, Mary Rosenblum (Federations)
- The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Night Shade Books)
- “The Wide, Carnivorous Sky”, John Langan (By Blood We Live)
The annual Locus Awards poll is also now open for voting. If you want to vote for any of my work, you can select any of the stories and anthologies above from the drop-down menus, or can write in any other original story from those anthologies, or vote for By Blood We Live, as well. I’m also an option in the drop-down menu for “Best Editor.”
You can check out my Hugo Awards post to see a list of stories from those anthologies that are eligible for both the Hugos and the Locus Awards.
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 6: Steampunk! Sherlock Holmes! Eschatology!
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 5: Crystal Skulls! Alien Abductions! Bigfootology!
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Episode 4: Superheroes! Romance! Sea Monsters!
This week we talk to the delightful Marjorie M. Liu, writer of Marvel Comics’ Dark Wolverine and NYX and author of the novels in the Dirk and Steele and Hunter Kiss series. She tells us about attending Clarion and writing for Marvel, and Dave and John discuss comics, then and now.
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Episode 4: Superheroes! Romance! Sea Monsters!
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 3: Robots! War Machines! Robolobsters!
On this week’s episode of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, we interview P.W. Singer, author of Wired for War about the subject of robots in the military and the intersection between video games and war. Also, Dave and I consider some of the science fiction works that influenced the development of robots as we know them.
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 3: Robots! War Machines! Robolobsters!