SF Crowsnest reviews Wastelands

SF Crowsnest just published a nice review of Wastelands by Tomas L. Martin. Here’s a snippet:

In this, his first anthology, he collects together an impressive array of post-apocalyptic short stories. […] There’s some really great stories in here from the likes of Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Tobias Buckell, Cory Doctorow and George R.R. Martin. Before I move on to my pick of them, I’d like to mention how excellent John Joseph Adam’s editorial comments are both in the introduction and before each story. His comments on the authors and how they came to write the stories add weight and interest to each one and dramatically added to my enjoyment of the anthology. […] Stands out as one of the best short story collections I’ve read in a while.
 

The whole review can be found here.

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Interview with Tim Pratt

SCI FI Weekly just published a Q&A interview I did with Tim Pratt. Here’s a snippet:

What would you do with a zombie army?

Pratt: My house would be kept so clean! Except for the bits of zombie falling off here and there. Seriously, though, what wouldn’t I do? Zombies for all the menial tasks I hate! (Nothing involving food prep, natch, but yardwork? Definitely.) Plus, I would have the single greatest haunted house in the world each Halloween.
 

Read the whole interview!

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F&SF stories on the 2007 Locus Recommended Reading List

Locus has published its 2007 recommended reading list. The following stories from F&SF made the list:

Novellas

  • "The Master Miller’s Tale", Ian R. MacLeod (F&SF 5/07)
  • "Stars Seen Through Stone", Lucius Shepard (F&SF 7/07)
  • "Memorare", Gene Wolfe (F&SF 4/07)
     

Novelettes

  • "Dance of Shadows", Fred Chappell (F&SF 3/07)
  • "The Diamond Shadow", Fred Chappell (F&SF 10-11/07)
  • "The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate", Ted Chiang (F&SF 9/07)
  • "The Bone Man", Frederic S. Durbin (F&SF 12/07)
  • "An Eye for an Eye", Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF 6/07)
  • "Wizard’s Six", Alex Irvine (F&SF 6/07)
  • "Brain Raid", Alexander Jablokov (F&SF 2/07)
  • "Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack In the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers", John Langan (F&SF 9/07) *
  • "Finisterra", David Moles (F&SF 12/07)
  • "Against the Current", Robert Silverberg (F&SF 10-11/07)
  • "Kiosk", Bruce Sterling (F&SF 1/07)
  • "Kaleidoscope", K. D. Wentworth (F&SF 5/07)
  • "A Wizard of the Old School", Chris Willrich (F&SF 8/07)
     

Short Stories

  • "Unpossible", Daryl Gregory (F&SF 10-11/07)
  • "The Tomb Wife", Gwyneth Jones (F&SF 8/07)
  • "Osama Phone Home", David Marusek (MIT Technology Review 3-4/07, reprinted in F&SF)
  • "Fragrant Goddess", Paul Park (F&SF 10-11/07)
  • "Magic with Thirteen-Year-Old Boys", Robert Reed (F&SF 3/07)
  • "Memoir of a Deer Woman", M. Rickert (F&SF 3/07)
  • "Stray", Benjamin Rosenbaum & David Ackert (F&SF 12/07)
  • "Stone and the Librarian", William Browning Spencer (F&SF 2/07)
  • "The Great White Bed", Don Webb (F&SF 5/07)
     

Congrats to all of the authors!

* Also in Wastelands.

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F&SF January 2008 Acquisitions

F&SF‘s January acquisitions include:

  • The Political Prisoner – Charles Coleman Finlay (28,000 words)
  • The Visionaries – Robert Reed (8400)
  • The Monopoly Man – Barry B. Longyear (6900)
  • Quickstone – Marc Laidlaw (11,500)
  • Songwood – Marc Laidlaw (6400)
  • Arkfall – Carolyn Ives Gilman (21,000)
  • Dazzle Joins the Screenwriter’s Guild – Scott Bradfield (7300)

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iTunes Meme

An iTunes meme, stolen (as usual) from Andy Wheeler, who (as usual) stole it from Keith R.A. Decandido:

How many songs total: 5861
How many hours or days of music: 33.7 days
Most recently played: "The Dissentience" by Protest the Hero, from Fortress
Most played: "Blacken the Cursed Sun" by Lamb of God, off Sacrament (135 times)
Most recently added: "Goddess Gagged" by Protest the Hero, from Fortress

Sort by song title

First Song: "A.D.D." by System of a Down, off Steal This Album!
Last Song: "…" by Callenish Circle, off Flesh Power Domination

Sort by time

Shortest Song: "Invite Yourself In" by Ultraspank, off Progress (00:17)
Longest Song: "Iowa" by Slipknot, off Iowa (15:05)

Sort by Artist

First: The Absence
Last: 36 Crazyfists

Sort by album

First album: Above the Weeping World by Insomnium
Last album: 2000 Years of Human Error by Godhead

First song that comes up on Shuffle: "Midsummer Night" by Korpiklaani, from Tales Along This Road

Search the following and state how many songs come up:

Death – 541 (Probably because of the "death metal" genre labels; it probably would’ve been even more, but not all of my tracks are correctly labeled.)
Life – 132
Love – 42
Hate – 45
You – 249
Sex – 16 (14 of them due to White Zombie’s album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1)

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Eclipse Two Open Reading Period

Jonathan Strahan currently has an open reading period for his anthology series Eclipse:

I am currently reading for Eclipse Two, the second volume in the original science fiction and fantasy anthology series that I am editing for San Francisco-based publisher Night Shade Books. Eclipse is a series of anthologies in the vein of Orbit, Universe and New Dimensions, updated for the 21st century. It’s new and it’s proudly genre. It has no theme, and there’s no such thing as an Eclipse ‘type’ of story. Instead writers are encouraged to take any and all of the colors of the genre palette – be they steampunk, cyberpunk, new space opera, old space opera, fairy tale, ghost story, hard SF, or whatever – and use them as they will to create something unique and wonderful. That said, I am particularly looking for strong science fiction stories for Volume Two. Each volume of Eclipse features more than a dozen new stories by some of the best and brightest writers working in the field today. For example, Eclipse 1, which was published in October 2007, features Peter S. Beagle, Jack Dann & Paul Brandon, Terry Dowling, Andy Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Eileen Gunn, Gwyneth Jones, Ellen Klages, Margo Lanagan, Maureen F. McHugh, Garth Nix, Lucius Shepard, Bruce Sterling, and Ysabeau S. Wilce.
 

Visit Jonathan’s website to learn how to submit a story.

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