Back in April I mentioned that at Eastercon the SF artist Chris Moore had offered to send me a proof print - absolutely free - of his recent cover for the SF Masterworks edition of Samuel R. Delany's DhalgrenWell, it's now up on the wall at home in Hua Hin, framed in black, with cream and black mounting boards beneath non-reflective glass. See how ( Read more... )

If you live in the UK by now you may have seen the new cover design for Gollancz's relaunched SF Masterworks series. Yes, they're garish, perhaps a little too garish. They clearly want the covers to stand out, or perhaps literally leap off the bookshelves into your sweaty palms. A Gollancz rep, speaking on condition of anonymity at Eastercon ( Read more... )

I sent Fred Barney Taylor, director of The Polymath, a link to my review yesterday and he has replied with some comments on the film's structure. Reproduced here with his permission.
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Everyone's posting poetry. yonmei posted a poem by Howard A. Landman about the poet Marilyn Hacker, so here's a short one by Hacker that I like, about her ex-husband Samuel Delany (found in Delany's The Motion of Light in WaterThere was a young man called Delany ( Read more... )