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It looks like Irene Gallo has given us a sneak at an upcoming John Scalzi novel. Am I just slow? Had this been announced?

Over in this thread on rasfw, Jim Butcher, renowned for being unwilling to spend two or three minutes on google to render Chicago accurately in his novels, gets cranky after someone comments on an upsurge of religious content in the Dresden novels.

It’s understandable. After all, it’s so difficult to find out any […]

Science Fiction Awards Watch has jumped into the blogosphere in a big way, coming just before this year’s Hugo announcements. Aside from my own hand-wringing about His Majesty’s Dragon and an impressive list of awards and award-resources, they’ve also just posted a link to author Jay Lake’s defense of the existence of these awards. […]

The story (see also the Torque Control take) of Titan’s Campbell Award win has made a little more headway. David Truesdale has a column for F&SF that includes the remarks of Elizabeth Hull announcing Bova’s victory. Until now we have had no insight into the reasoning of the Campbell jury in selecting Titan, […]

My Elves Are Different throws in on the Campbell & Titan debate.

Ben Bova’s Grand Tour novel Titan was announced as winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel earlier this month. This post examines the merits of that decision and makes an argument to the jury of that award that their choice comprised a mistake damaging to the award and […]

John Scalzi reveals that he deliberately avoided disambiguating the gender of a character in The Android’s Dream for the entire length of the novel. The selection of comments which I read skewed towards perceiving the character of ‘Sam’ as male, and that matches how I read it. Two primary grounds come to mind. […]

Last night three members of chicago-sf.org were fortunate enough to attend the Kim Harrison author event at Borders in Oak Brook. Nimowy, spot and I got to listen to Ms. Harrison read a few pages from her new book, _For a Few Demons More_, then take questions for about an hour, after which she signed […]

Karl Schroeder is back on the writing beat after a foray into one of his many talents: doing foresight work for the Canadian government. The events focused on technology convergence and security issues. If this includes plans to invade our nation with memetically-engineered comedic duos, he fails to mention it. On the […]

Via Big Dumb Object I see the UK SF Book News Network has an interesting interview with Richard K. Morgan about his new novel Black Man, or Thirteen in the US. The interview confirms the impression of political concern that is woven into the Takeshi Kovacs novels, and if anything reveals Morgan to be […]