Trespass

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365 tomorrows | 05/11/08 23:01

Author : Dee Harding Samsara has worn his locks for 15 years, shining and strong. He has adapted to them by sleeping sideways and letting them learn to clean themselves. Each tangled cluster of keratine farms its own rot, the rain, and the detritus of everyday life. Stray protein quietly becoming fuel for a million miniscule...

  Eric Brown reviews Reynolds, Scalzi, Whates and Smith in The Guardian

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Big Dumb Object | 05/11/08 5:10

Eric Brown's latest batch of SF book reviews are online in the Guardian. He has short reviews of:House of Suns, by Alastair Reynolds The Ghost Brigades, by John ScalziCelebration, edited by Ian WhatesThe Servants, by MM SmithThey're short, but a review...

  Retirement

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365 tomorrows | 05/10/08 23:26

Author : Ian Rennie They turned Valerie off this morning. Nothing flashy, nothing officially announced. Two grey-suited daemons came in, picked up her sprite and walked out with it. When I went to the dorms to investigate, her room was blank, no sign that she had ever been here. I know the drill. They’ll say [...]

  Slice of SciFi Show #160: Interview With Ken Marino

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Slice of Scifi | 05/10/08 5:00

Interview with actor Ken Marino In the News: Lego has been expanding the creative imagination of children for decades a real hands-on kind of way with its tiny plastic building blocks. Now the company will take future generations into the virtual world with “Lego Universe.” Tomas Alfredson’s “let...

  The General

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365 tomorrows | 05/09/08 23:01

Author : Jacinta A. Meyers Lieutenant General Macy McMurphey Delane dreamt of meeting his nemesis. It was a bit of an obsession. He imagined that, across the star-clustered chasm of drifting space dust, on the far edge of the galaxy, there was another command center probably very much like his own. Yes, there must be super...

  Slice of SciFi #159: Voicemail Show

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Slice of Scifi | 05/09/08 16:00

This Week’s Voicemail Show! This is the show for our inquiring fans and listeners and their voicemails, emails. We want to hear your comments and feedback… No, really, we do! Pay no attention to how much Mike grumbles about them…you know - that guy sitting in the dark corner with all the knobs [...]

  Earth braces for invasion of the space Nazis

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The Website at the End of the Universe - A science fiction community and weblog | 05/09/08 14:50

The Finnish gang behind the hilarious movie Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning are set to unleash their next film on the world. This one looks even better. It's called Iron Sky and tells the story of how the Nazis escaped from their Antarctic hideouts to set up base on the moon where they are now launching an invasion against...

  Orbit announces expansion plans

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Big Dumb Object | 05/09/08 10:36

Somehow all the publishing news always seems to be bad, fewer books being bought, shorter author lists at publishers, less shelf-space for SFF. And yet, Orbit seem to be doing okay, so much so that they've just announced expansion plans......

  Iain Banks Pleased With Radio Adaptation Script

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Big Dumb Object | 05/09/08 8:50

Via a post by Paul Cornell's, which highlights a load of stuff he's doing he mentions... Iain Banks has now taken a look at the recording script of my BBC Radio 4 adaptation of his novella ‘The State of the...

  SF as a Literary Genre symposium summary

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Big Dumb Object | 05/09/08 8:50

Niall has a detailed summary of the Science Fiction as a Literary Genre Symposium which was held in London yesterday. Or, if you want a brief summary, Paul has a Tweet about it. There should be video up on the...