Rollback Explores Aging

Apr. 19 —

Multiple award-winning SF author Robert J. Sawyer, whose novel Rollback is the SCI FI Essentials pick for April, told SCI FI Wire that the book juxtaposes two ideas: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and aging.

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Magical Tomes, Anyone?

My pal Jeremy Tolbert is looking for some help with a supersecret project he’s working on:

I’m working on a little web project that is going to be really fun, but I need titles of magical tomes, both real, historical ones, and invented ones. I’d like to include magical tomes that some of you may have used in your fiction as easter eggs. Just need the titles. Please leave me a comment with the titles and I will work them into the site. Sorry that I am being a bit mysterious, but I want this project to be fun for you too when it’s done and if I tell you about it now, then it won’t be as exciting.

Anyone?

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Glasshouse Throws Stones

Apr. 18 —

Hugo Award-winning SF author Charles Stross, whose novel Glasshouse is a current finalist for both the Hugo and Prometheus awards, told SCI FI Wire that the book is about Robin, a man who wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing.

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Peeps Puts Sex In Vampirism

Apr. 13 —

Best-selling author Scott Westerfeld–whose novel Peeps is a current finalist for the Andre Norton Award for best young-adult SF/fantasy novel of the year–told SCI FI Wire that the book is about a young man in New York who has been infected with an unusual sexually transmitted parasite.

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‘Universe’ Travels Universes

Apr. 11 —

SF author Paul Melko, whose novella “The Walls of the Universe” is a current finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula awards, told SCI FI Wire that the story is about a man who finds himself lost in a series of universes, unable to get back to his own.

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Map Explores Loss, Dreams

Apr. 9 —

Fantasy author M. Rickert–whose short fiction collection, Map of Dreams, recently won the Crawford Award for best first fantasy book of the year–told SCI FI Wire that the stories in the collection are thematically tied together.

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Hugo-Induced Rage

Bookslut is angry about the “penis-heavy” Hugo ballot.

Dave Truesdale is angry about Bookslut being angry about the “penis-heavy” Hugo ballot.

The line in the sand has been drawn! Where do you stand??

But seriously — what works by women do you feel were overlooked on the Hugo ballot this year? And/or which works by men *on* the ballot were undeserving?

I thought the following novels were all really good:

  • Engaging the Enemy by Elizabeth Moon
  • Wings to the Kingdom by Cherie Priest
  • Bridge of Souls by Fiona McIntosh
  • The Crippled Angel by Sara Douglass
  • The Ghosts of Blood and Innocence by Storm Constantine

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