I’ve finally completed my recap of Boskone. Since I backdated the posts, they won’t show up if you read my blog on friends pages so you can find them here: Friday, Saturday (back-dated), Sunday (back-dated).
I got back home from Boston about 10 PM last night with a few new books and no voice. I’m still sick today and my voice has withered away. I stayed home from work and hopefully that means I’ll be okay for work tomorrow. I haven’t had a chance to post more about Boskone yet,…
I was up at 8:30 AM, headed down to the hotel lobby to do a little bit of writing (promised mabfan that I’d do this) and eat breakfast. Eric came down a little later, ate and then hit the road for home. My first session wasn’t until 11 AM, so I spent some time wandering…
I started my day at Boskone with a panel called “SF and Fantasy as Modern Myth”. The panel included Judith Berman, Debra Doyle, Greer Gilamn, and Sonya Taaffe. This panel was way far over my head. When discussions of science fiction feature words like “archetype”, they become too erudite even for me. So while I…
I mentioned Boskone in my last post. They have posted their “almost final” program schedule and I went through it this morning, trying to decide what I wanted to see. It’s tough; I wanted a mix of good s.f. discussion, as well as good sessions on writing. Here is my preliminary list, subject to change,…
From Edmund Schubert, editor of InterGalactic Medicine Show: To Readers of Science Fiction and Fantasy everywhere, When you have something great, you want everyone to know. So you tell people about it. You share it. You pass it along to friends everywhere. Well, that’s what we’re doing with InterGalactic Medicine Show. We want to make…
Robert J. Sawyer had some smart remarks today on this dissing of science fiction. I completely agree with him. Isaac Asimov did too. He also used to insist on being referred to as a science fiction writer, which is what he was always mostly known for. But, like Rob’s experience, people shied away from that…
The mail just arrived (unusually late) and I received the March 2008 issue of ASIMOV’S and the April 2008 issue of ANALOG. That issue of ANALOG means I now have Joe Haldeman’s entire novel, Marsbound. I’ve only read part 1 of the serial thus far; when I have a chance, I can now read parts…
Edmund Schubert, editor of IGMS emailed me a few minutes ago to tell me that Rich Horton (a.k.a. ecbatan), a reviewer for, among other things, Locus, mentioned my name in his summary review of IGMS for 2007. In summarizing the novelettes to appear in IGMS this year, he mentioned me, along with a few others…
Not long before his death in April, 1992, Isaac Asimov wrote a “farewell” essay to all of his “gentle readers”. This essay appeared a few months after his death in the August 1992 issue of F&SF as “Farewell, Farewell”. Isaac was one third of a triad of science fiction writers known as The Big Three.…
I’ve been in a rut for the last few months. I can find anything to read that really grabs me. So last night, I tried something that I’ve tried from time-to-time. I pulled my 1993 edition of John Clute and Peter Nicholls’ Encyclopedia of Science Fiction off the shelf and began skimming through it, somewhat…
Capclave 2007 was held at the Rockville Hilton this year with Jeffery Ford as the author Guest of Honor and Ellen Datlow as the editor Guest of Honor. I’ve wanted to meet Ellen Datlow for quite some time so I was pretty excited to go. Among others I wanted to meet was Scott Edelman. It…