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LJ Syndication for new World SF Blog
Thanks to one of our readers (thanks, Sue!) we should now have LJ syndication, so if you wish to continue following the blog on LJ, simply go here and click on add.
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World SF News Blog Moving to Wordpress
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The World SF News Blog is now hosted over on Wordpress - a more stable, faster and flexible system than LiveJournal (and the adverts have been driving us mad!)
PLEASE update your RSS feeds accordingly and follow us to our new home. All content has been successfully ported over to the new site, and we are planning to offer some ( Read more... ) -
The Croatian Tolkien
[via Cheryl Morgan] The Croatian SF Blog has an introductory post about Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874-1938), or the "Croatian Tolkien".
Her book Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Priče iz davnine), published in 1916, is among the most popular today in large part because of its adaptation into a computerized interactive fiction product by Helena Bulaja in ( Read more... ) -
Two links for Russian SF
A good introductory resource to Russian SF writers online is the Russian Science Fiction & Fantasy page, offering English pages on such writers as the Strugatsky Brothers, Sergey Lukyanenko and others. It's a little out-of-date, but still full of good information.
Another excellent page, Russian Science Fiction is an English-language page put up by ( Read more... ) -
Romanian Science Fiction to 1990
Over at Concatenation, A Brief History of Science Fiction in Romania up to 1990:
Things changed radically after 1950, when under Soviet control, Romania underwent a forced transformation process of its social, economic and cultural structure. The Romanian writers were required to reflect in their work the social and scientific accomplishments of ( Read more... ) -
Short Story Club discussion on "The Slows" by Gail Hareven
Over at Torque Control, the new weekly Short Story Club is discussing Israeli author Gail Hareven's New Yorker story, "The Slows". -
What Happened to Arab Science Fiction?
Continuing our coverage of Arab science fiction, here is Nesrine Malik in the Guardian on What Happened to Arab Science Fiction?
Isaac Asimov once said that "true science fiction could not really exist until people understood the rationalism of science and began to use it with respect in their stories". As Khaled Diab highlighted recently in an ( Read more... ) -
Nick Mamatas interviewed on editing Haikasoru
Over at Amazon blog Omnivoracious, Nick Mamatas, editor of the new Haikasoru line of translated Japanese SF novels, talks to Jeff VanderMeer:
Amazon.com: Between now and the end of the year, are there any other releases you're particularly excited about?
Mamatas: Well, Usurper of the Sun--our first hard SF title. It's a planetary adventure about ( Read more... ) -
Italian writer Anna Feruglio Dal Dan on Strange Horizons
On Strange Horizons this week, a story by Italian writer and translator Anna Feruglio Dal Dan: And This Also Has Been One of the Dark Places of the Earth.
Kilburn High Road at five-the evening rush hour-is like a tinkling river of fireflies, each bicycle with its own wavering, quivering little light, all rattling and clicking as they make their ( Read more... ) -
Arabic SF Prize, Association Plans Announced
ALECSO (The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization) has announced several exciting plans for developing science fiction in the Arab world, having held a meeting on the topic at its Tunisian offices earlier this year.
The full press release is below:
Closing The Meeting of Science Fiction Literature Experts in the Arab World in ( Read more... )