Today is International Children's Day and I bring gifts. I discovered The Mary Sue and all the wonderful things they link to like:

Who really is behind Star Wars prequels

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Rigamortis - A Zombie Love Story - a musical - this is the kind of zombie story even I can like

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And Micheal Sheen reads Twilight fanfiction

Big Morning Buzz Live |Carrie Keagan |Full ( Read more... )

Nebula Awards winners have been announced yesterday:

Novel: Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
Novella: “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’10)
Novelette: “That Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Made”, Eric James Stone (Analog 9/10)
Short Story (tie): “Ponies”, Kij Johnson (Tor.com 1/17/10 ( Read more... )

The winner of the 25th Arthur C. Clarke Award is South African writer Lauren Beukes for her novel Zoo City.Guardian also has the awarding ceremony video. And here is the interview with the winner.

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I'm so happy that the books from different parts of the world are starting to sip into English language SF and are being noticed. Many of the authors ( Read more... )

In the past weekend I've been swamped by announcements of awards both already presented and the shortlists. Here are the most interesting ones (at least to me).

The winners of British Science Fiction Awards are:

Novel: The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
Short Fiction: The Shipmaker, Aliette de Bodard (Interzone 231, TTA Press)
Art: ( Read more... )

I've been eating and talking all day so in other words real Polish Easter. It was nice but it also made me miss home so much more. As with all holidays all I really ever cared about was spending time with my family. And now I'm so far away and I just miss them and I miss all the things we used to do together and I feel like being left out of the ( Read more... )

The last book in The Tales from Malazan Book of the Fallen has been out for over a month out. The author is now resting and answering questions. There are two new interviews with Steven Erikson - one on Pat's Fantasy Hotlist done by Pat, Adam and Ken with question supplied by the unwashed hordes of malazanempire.com. The other is on Elitist Book ( Read more... )

YES! My dream final is happening. Vin against Quick Ben. I don't even care who wins in the end. I'm just happy they both got to the final.

This is something I've been hoping for from the start. From my previous post about this you know I was sure Vin was going to make it, although it was pretty close in the match against Jon Snow. She was leading ( Read more... )

The 2011 Suvudu's Cage Match reached semifinals and it's Vin against Jon Snow and right now she is winning. She was loosing  earlier today for but right now it looks like the tides been turned. Last time mistborn  manged to rally people to help Vin defeat Zed by giving us the write up true to the Terry Goodkind spirit. Including sudden and lengthy sermon ( Read more... )

The winner of 2010 James Tiptree, jr. Award has been announced. The winner is:

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic (Canongate, 2010)impressed with its power and its grace. Tiptree juror Jessa Crispin explains that the beginning of the book “does not scream science fiction or fantasy. It starts quietly, with a meditation on the author’s ( Read more... )

The tragedy that happened in Japan, the horrifying things those people endured and those they endure still with cold, lack of food and all their possessions taken by water but most of all missing relatives has been pushed away by an easier and more sensational subject. The will it blow up or not show. The media went into a loop explaining that it's ( Read more... )