Sometimes science fiction should be a little bit fun. It isn’t always, which I’m glad of. I recently wrote a guest post over at sfsignal about how good sf is at warnings. Which it is. But some days I’m happy we know how to have fun. I had a long drive this week, and as …
Reading Recommendation: The Man Who Hated Gravity, by Ben Bova Read More »
Odd title, I know. I listened to Starship Sofa 121, which has Paolo Bacigalupi’s “the Gambler” in it. Loved the story. I will include it on my Hugo ballot (which I’m still working on). Paolo is one of the best people we have writing sf right now – and are we lucky! It was also …
The Nebula short list is out. I’m really quite pleased with what is on the list (although – as always – slightly disappointed that some works which I nominated didn’t make it). In addition to some short stories like Kij Johnson’s “Spar” that I loved, two of my novel reading recommendations made the final ballot: …
I don’t know how many of you out there are listening to science fiction podcasts. I’ve been listening to audiobooks for years, particularly on long drives. or long weekends in the garden. When the narration is done well, it’s great entertainment.  So podcasts wasn’t much of a jump. Here are the ones I listen to: …
Yesterday, I listened to the Sofanauts podcast #30 while I was pulling out spent daises and mushed iris leaves and planting crocus and narcissus. The conversation is an hour and half long argument where everybody is right. The moderator was Tony C. Smith of Starship Sofa, guests lined up as Jeff Vandermeer and Jeremy Tolbert …
