Nova Swing Is Space Noir
Nova Swing is space noir, SF author M. John Harrison told SCI FI Wire. The book is set in roughly the same milieu as his Tiptree Award-winning novel Light.
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Echoes Captures Past Visions
Sixty Deals In Disaster
Feb. 9 — SCI FI Wire published a piece I wrote about Kim Stanley Robinson’s new novel Sixty Days and Counting.
Sixty Days and Counting deals with abrupt climate change. But it’s more than that, best-selling SF author Kim Stanley Robinson said: It’s utopian fiction, structured as a near-future disaster domestic comedy.
Assassin Parallels WWII
Feb. 8 — SCI FI Wire published a piece I wrote about Elizabeth Haydon’s new novel The Assasssin King.
The Assassin King is part of Elizabeth Haydon’s Symphony of Ages, which literally spans the history of the universe. Haydon told SCI FI Wire that she plotted out the history of the universe from birth to death in order to write work of this magnitude.
Terror Mixes SF, History
Feb. 7 — SCI FI Wire published a piece I wrote about Dan Simmons’s latest novel, The Terror.
The Terror centers with the ill-fated Franklin arctic expedition of 1845, then adds a fanged monster. Multiple award-winning SF/fantasy author Dan Simmons told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel is a work of imaginative fiction based on actual historical events.
Bible Inspired Catalyst
Feb. 6 — SCI FI Wire published a piece I wrote about Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s novel Catalyst, which is a finalist for this year’s Philip K. Dick Award.
Gap Gets Prehistoric
Jan. 31 — SCI FI Wire published a piece I wrote about Harry Turtledove’s new novel Beyond the Gap.
Shadowplay Makes Fantasy Real
Jan. 30 — SCI FI Wire published a piece I wrote about Tad Williams’s latest novel, Shadowplay.
Asimov’s Beefs Up For 30th
Jan. 26 — SCI FI Wire published a piece I wrote about Asimov’s upcoming 30th anniversary issue.
Mindscape Gets In The Zone
Jan. 25 — SCI FI Wire published a piece I wrote about Andrea Hairston’s first novel Mindscape, which was named a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award this year.