My second SFS - we're just 5 days from the release of our new hopepunk antho Transform the World:
Income inequality is worse than it was in the Roaring Twenties. Corporations are moving fast and breaking things, and the social contract seems to be falling apart, aided by social media disruption and division on steroids.
We asked fourteen sci-fi writers to come up with innovative ways the world could work better.
With a steely gaze, she ran the device over her figure, each sweep tailoring an outfit fit for the Guild Ball—a dress forged from the very fabric of the cosmos, displaying a dance of galaxies and nebulae.
This Kickstarter for a Ukrainian science fiction anthology looks great.
They already secured a grant form the Ukrainian Book Institute for many stories from Ukrainian authors (and translations into English), and have just passed the funding goal for printing (plus the first stretch goal).
Backing starts from as little as $1 for the ebook (or $20 plus international postage for a print copy).
I'm in this huge CYBERPUNK book, along with William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic and lots more.
The Big Book of Cyberpunk arrives September 26. Editor Jared Shurin tells File 770, “As with any attempt at a definitive collection, I suspect (and hope) it will provoke conversation!”
At over a thousand pages it is the largest anthology of the genre, with authors from over two dozen countries. #bookstodon#sff#scifi#books
I usually listen to Audible books long after the book has been published, but these days, books hit the shelves and Audible the same day.
This hasn't been a problem until now - I'm 15 chapters into the third book of Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Final Architect and I'M SO LOST and y'all there are no cheat sheets or full synopses on the interwebs yet because the book has only recently been released...
It is a testament to Tchaikovsky that I'm still enjoying the book!
“I could go on for ages about SF’s direct links to Woolf and modernism – the subjective and the impersonal, different levels of perspective, a single day in the life of a character and vast deserts of eternity”
With his latest novel, IN ASCENSION, longlisted for the #BookerPrize 2023, Martin MacInnes discusses the interconnectedness of life – & why arts & sciences belong together
Man, I can't believe I'd been sleeping on Ursula Le Guin for so long - after reading The Dispossessed and LHOD, she's becoming one of my favourite authors.
Which of her other books would you recommend? I've already got A Wizard of Earthsea, The Word for World is Forest and some short stories (like The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas) on my list.
(Also open to recommendations for similar authors)
CNN has a story about a meteor lighting up the Colorado sky, and the story has a compilation of videos from doorbell cams across the state.
It's fascinating to think about tracking the progress of a meteor using all these cams, and it also makes me think there's something fun here for a sci-fi story about UFOs.
TIL that it wasn’t Star Trek TNG that came up with the idea for a positronic brain for androids. Isaac Asimov used that terminology in I, Robot in the 1950s. I’m not sure if he was the first but that’s still decades before Commander Data was imagined into existence. #scifi#StarTrek#IsaacAsimov
Started reading a random compilation of 1969-70 #scifi short stories that I bought while trying to keep #bookstores in business during the worst of the #quarantines - first one in the collection has the main character being a professional puppy murderer as a child, and being essentially a pathological killer while also being a hero and the ideal military officer. He also thought he killed an angel.
I don’t know who Howard Fast is but he has issues.
Anthony Doeer's Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021) is a multi-stranded narrative based on a (invented?) Greek mythical tale; combining #scifi & historical fiction with a contemporary narrative, the tales intersect & intertwine to tell its story. Its a good idea & pretty readable but somehow it never quite engaged me. I felt like I was watching the fiction from outside, enjoying its mechanism(s) but not fully engrossed; good but not great!
In a groundbreaking achievement at the Alpha Cerai Spaceship Yard, Starship Guild Engineer Sóley Dawn successfully ignites a next-generation faster-than-light drive, marking a milestone in interstellar propulsion technology.
It's been years in the making, but today our debut novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY finally hits the shelves. It's a dream come true for both @rachelcleves and @aram. We've fantasized about being novelists since we were kids, and today that fantasy becomes reality.
We hope you love Nev, Airin, Jim Bone, and all the people we dreamed into this book.
While attending her college roommate's UFO-themed wedding in Roswell NM, non-believer, firmly grounded Francie gets abducted by a sentient tumbleweed with whip snapping tentacles. But hey! She keeps her cool.
Well defined and quirky characters will take you on a road trip out of this world. Connie Willis is a masterful, economical and very, very clever writer. Feel great, must read!