Apr. 4 —

Multiple award-winning author and SF Grandmaster Frederik Pohl told SCI FI Wire that legendary author Arthur C. Clarke asked him to collaborate on The Last Theorem, a novel-in-progress.

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Apr. 3 —

SF author Steven Harper told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Battlestar Galactica: Unity, is set in the universe of the SCI FI Channel original series and takes place after the episode “Flight of the Phoenix” and before “Pegasus.”

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Apr. 2 —

World Fantasy Award-winning author Richard Bowes, whose novel From the Files of the Time Rangers was recently named a finalist for the Nebula Award, told SCI FI Wire that the book is a “mosaic novel”: The chapters are a series of linked stories.

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Mar. 30 —

World Fantasy Award-winning author Ellen Kushner–whose novel The Privilege of the Sword was recently named a finalist for the Nebula Award–told SCI FI Wire that she’s pleased that teenage girls have discovered the book and are reading it as a “teenage-girl book.”

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Mar. 28 —

Multiple award-winning fantasy author Jeffrey Ford, whose Edgar Award-winning novel The Girl in the Glass was recently named a finalist for the Nebula Award, told SCI FI Wire that the book is about a trio of con men who, during the Great Depression, put on sham seances for the grieving rich, the inhabitants of the mansions of Long Island’s North Shore Gold Coast.

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Mar. 27 —

Newbery Honor Book Award-winning author Megan Whalen Turner–whose novel The King of Attolia was recently named a finalist for the Andre Norton Award for best young-adult SF/fantasy novel of the year–told SCI FI Wire that the book grew out of a desire to set a fantasy in something besides a Western European medieval society.

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Mar. 23 —

Fantasy author S.C. Butler told SCI FI Wire that his debut novel, Reiffen’s Choice–the first in his Stoneways Trilogy–was inspired by his love of dwarves. “Lots of things have been done with elves in different fantasy books, but I think dwarves have been under-represented,” Butler said.

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Mar. 22 —

Horror author Alexandra Sokoloff–whose first novel, The Harrowing, was named a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award–told SCI FI Wire that the book came from her desire to write a psychological ghost story in the vein of Shirley Jackson’s classic The Haunting of Hill House.

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Mar. 21 —

Andy Cox, editor and publisher of the British SF magazine Interzone, told SCI FI Wire that the magazine is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with a special March/April issue.

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Mar. 19 —

Young-adult author Susan Beth Pfeffer–whose novel Life as We Knew It was named a finalist for the Andre Norton Award for best young-adult SF/fantasy novel of the year–told SCI FI Wire that the book is a series of diary entries written by young girl who lives through an apocalyptic cosmological event.

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