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Posts with tag: books | Return to FantasySFBlog.com Homepage Teresa Nielsen Hayden Hospitalized Teresa Nielsen Hayden was hospitalized following a heart attack. Tests are continuing, but she is reportedly doing well. You can leave get well messages at her and her husband's popular blog. We wish her a speedy recovery and a healthy future! Posted on September 15, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Andre Norton's estate is embroiled in a lawsuit over who owns the rights to the work of one of science fiction's best known and loved female authors. Norton's caretaker in her later years and her biggest fan and friend, an oncologist, are battling out the right to control all posthumous publication of her works. Norton moved to Murfreesboro, a Nashville suburb, in the 1990s and established a writer's research library. As she got older, the library was closed and Norton, who had no children or other close relatives, moved in with her caretaker, Sue Stewart. Over the years, she gave Stewart more than $250,000, according to court testimony.It sounds like the will itself was poorly drafted. What a mess. You can be sure that whoever loses will appeal the ruling. Posted on July 10, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) The Dangers of Time Travel Tom Holt, author of You Don't Have to be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps and the upcoming release The Better Mousetrap, helps explain why time traveling -- no matter how well-intentioned -- will always mess up the timeline and lead to disastrous results. First stop --This is why a) we have time cops and b) we generally refrain from time traveling. Posted on May 1, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View)
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon won the Nebula Award for Best Novel. The Nebula Awards are presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, for superior achievement in science fiction and fantasy writing. Here are the other winners: Novella: "Fountain of Age" by Nancy Kress Novelette: "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang Short Story: "Always" by Karen Joy Fowler Script: Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro Andre Norton Award: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. Author Emeritis: Ardath Mayhar SFWA Service Award: Melisa Michaels and Graham P. Collins 2008 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master: Michael Moorcock The Nebulas are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Congratulations to all th winners! To learn more, visit the website. Posted on April 28, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Spider Robinson Dives Into Podcasting Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author Spider Robinson has taken up podcasting. You can hear the weekly podcast at his website.
In November, Tor will release the paperback version of Variable Star, which is a story by Robert Heinlein that was not finished before his death. Spider worked from Heinlein's notes and outlines and finished the tale. Posted on September 21, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) James Oliver Rigney Jr.,who wrote the bestselling Wheel of Time epic fantasy series under the name Robert Jordan, has died
at the age of 58. He was suffering from a rare blood disorder, primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy. The disease eventually caused his heart to fail. "Few people have managed to imagine a world the way that Robert Jordan did," Wendy Bradley, editor of the science-fiction magazine Farthing told The Times. "That was a great strength of his writing. He was trying to tell a story on a heroic scale, and he was good -- he had the same grip on storytelling that J.K. Rowling has." More than 30 million copies of the books have been sold and the series has been translated into about two dozen languages, according to Tor, his New York publisher. By the 1990s, Rigney had come to dominate the fantasy genre spawned by J.R.R. Tolkien and "The Lord of the Rings."His loss will be felt greatly in the fantasy and sf communities: he will be greatly missed. You can visit Jim's blog page here. You can see his website, maintained by his publisher Tor, here. Posted on September 19, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Robert J. Sawyer, Honored At Chengdu International Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer has been named "the most popular foreign author of the year" at the Chengdu International Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival. So why is the Dean of Canadian science fiction so revered in China? The Globe and Mail explains: According to London-based science-fiction scholar Lavie Tidhar, China has experienced a rise in the production of, and interest in, science fiction since the late 1980s. Mao Zedong and his supporters encouraged science fiction as a "literature of development" in the 1950s as China embarked on a program of industrialization. However, the idiom went into decline during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), only to undergo a revival with the rise of Chairman Deng Xiaoping. Before his death in 1997, Deng proclaimed "science and technology is the number one productive force" and science fiction as a way to spark the scientific imagination.It's wonderful that the Chinese are embracing foreign sf authors. But it's not so wonderful that they have absolutely no respect for copyright laws. J.K. Rowling has to be pulling her hair out over all bizarre, unauthorized Harry Potter books that have been published in China. Posted on August 30, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) New Book Reviews New book reviews from our online magazine, The Internet Writing Journal, include: Posted on August 23, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Locus reports on the finalists for the year's British Fantasy Awards: Finalists for the year's British Fantasy Awards include Best Novel nominees Chaz Brenchley, Mike Carey, Mark Chadbourn, M. John Harrison, Tim Lebbon, Scott Lynch, Sarah Pinborough, Mark Samuels, and Conrad Williams... plus Ian McDonald, Neil Gaiman, Ellen Datlow, John Picacio, Julie Phillips, and others in categories for novella, short fiction, anthology, collection, artist, small press, and non-fiction. The winners will be announced at Fantasycon, 21-23 September 2007 in Nottingham, UK.See the full list of nominees here. Get more info about the 2007 FantasyCon here. You can subscribe to the print edition of Locus, which is worth every penny, here. Posted on August 11, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) |
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