In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, author and illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and science fiction writer Mary Anne Mohanraj talk to hosts V. V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and how space exploration has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-25 08:47:28 UTC ]
This week we're loaded with new stuff to watch on streaming, including Katee Sackhoff in a new non-Battlestar Galactica science fiction series, Another Life. Also new on Netflix this week is The Great Hack, a documentary focusing on the Cambridge Ana... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2019-07-23 02:28:00 UTC ]
Literary agents are gatekeepers of the publishing industry. Find science fiction literary agents open to submissions in this post. List will be updated regularly. The post Science Fiction Literary Agents Open to Submissions by Robert Lee Brewer appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2019-07-22 11:00:17 UTC ]
Tade Thompson has won the Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction with his novel Rosewater (Orbit). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-18 04:11:12 UTC ]
Science fiction illuminates reality by imagining the unreal in a mind-bending show at the Queens Museum. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-07-15 09:00:06 UTC ]
At its core, science fiction is a tool for building thought experiment machines. That's the game Russell T Davies' new show is playing so beautifully. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2019-07-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
Author photo: Tom Kneller; art director: Spencer Singer ¤ SAMUEL R. DELANY (born April 1, 1942) is one of the most — if not the most — important science fiction writers and critics alive today. As documented in the feature-length documentary The Polymath (2008), Delany’s work as a teacher,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-07-06 12:30:30 UTC ]
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle enjoys some vintage science fiction courtesy of The Best of John Wyndham, 1932-1949 I’ve blogged before about my discovery of John Wyndham’s science fiction in a local charity shop, which had a number of old paperbacks for 99p... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2019-07-05 14:00:22 UTC ]
This week, Senior Editor Kris Naudus takes a look at a book that will please both sci-fi nerds and design geeks. 'Typeset in the Future' explores the typography and design in science fiction movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2019-07-01 17:45:00 UTC ]
“Unlike some of my hard science fiction books, such as ‘Seveneves’ — where I sweated the details of orbits, rocket engines, etc. — ‘Fall’ is meant to be read as more of a fable,” he says. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-06-28 09:00:08 UTC ]
Samsung and AT&T recently opened their collaborative 5G Innovation Center to much fanfare. Here is what the two corporate behemoths are actually working on within the secretive walls of Samsung's multibillion-dollar facility in Austin. Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2019-06-26 15:45:18 UTC ]
Tom Hunter, director of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, explores how science and speculative fiction publishing is dealing with the growing demand for diverse work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Speculative writers flesh out our passing thoughts into complete, functioning societies and explore how they might unfold. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2019-04-18 09:22:03 UTC ]
Watkins Media’s science fiction and fantasy imprint Angry Robot has hired a new commissioning editor, Eleanor Teasdale, who joins from literary agency Greene and Heaton. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The finalists for the 2018 Nebula Awards, considered some of the most prestigious in science fiction and fantasy, were announced on Wednesday, with novelists Tomi Adeyemi and Justina Ireland, filmmaker Boots Riley and musician Janelle Monáe among the nominees. Adeyemi and Ireland were nominated... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sequel to the Canadian author’s bestselling feminist dystopia will be published around the world in September 2019Margaret Atwood has announced a sequel to her bestselling feminist dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, titled The Testaments. It will be published in September 2019.“Dear Readers,”... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new book festival for fans of fantasy, science fiction and horror is launching in Edinburgh next summer featuring authors including Scottish sci-fi writer Ken MacLeod and The Bone Season's Samantha Shannon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing’s science fiction and fantasy imprint 47North has signed the recent winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award, Anne Charnock, for a further novel, set in the “disturbing near-future”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week: inside the golden age of science fiction, plus the epic drama of our atmosphere. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new book looks at four men who are largely responsible for the genre of science fiction as we know it today. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]