I would normally mention this later, but since a lot of people round here are about to get swept up in Eastercon, an early announcement. I'll be interviewing Paul Kincaid, aka peake next Wednesday 26th March, about sf criticism and in particular his new book What it is we do when we read science fiction. This is part of the BSFA's monthly series of ( Read more... )

Congratulations to Christopher Barzak, whose first novel One for Sorrow has won this year's Crawford Award. Locus has the shortlist.

This month's interviewee at the BSFA meeting in London will be Roz Kaveney, writer, editor, political activist, and not least LJer rozk. I'll be asking the questions, next Wednesday 24th October, from about 7pm at the Star pub in Belgravia (upstairs bar). As usual, fannish faces can be found there from around 6pm, and we'll all decamp for a meal at the ( Read more... )

In my ongoing role as understudy interviewer for the BSFA, I'll be taking the place of Pat McMurray - temporarily stranded, I believe, in Nether Amazonia or somewhere - and interviewing the very wonderful Juliet McKenna (aka jemck) tomorrow. Usual place: the Star pub in Belgravia from around 7pm - full details here.

Terrific review of Ben Bova's Titan by Adam Roberts on Strange Horizons today yesterday.

This time, online extracts from the discussion I did with John Clute and Gary Wolfe, which is printed in full in the August Locus.

My long Locus piece on Robert Heinlein, written for their August Heinlein Centennial issue, is now online. Comments disabled here so you can comment there if you want.

Have any of you lot sent me something via Parcelforce to my home address recently? I ask because there was an attempt to deliver it here while I was away recently, and I'm currently in the middle of an uncomedy of bureaucracy as I try to get them to deliver it while I'm here. (My assumption is that the parcel's from a publisher, but I'm usually ( Read more... )

It's Ægypt week at Strange Horizons: they're publishing reviews of the volumes of John Crowley's four-book sequence on successive days. On Monday, Abigail Nussbaum on The Solitudes; today, me on Love & Sleep; tomorrow, Paul Kincaid on Dæmonomania; Thursday, John Clute on Endless Things.

PS: It's fund drive time, too.

My review of John Crowley's latest novel, Endless Things, is now up at Locus Online.