Here’s a interview at IO9 with last year’s Prometheus Award-winner, Charles Stross.
This new SF blog site rocks.
Author: Anders Monsen (Page 52 of 82)
Over at the new SF blog IO9, an interview with multiple Prometheus Award winning writer, Ken MacLeod. Dare I say he might be the front runner again this year with The Execution Channel? What libertarian can’t help cheering at a quote like this? (“Whoops, my own ‘litmus test’…” he says with a sardonic smile)
in my own case, the political philosophers whose ideas most directly give rise to SF are the libertarians. Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia more or less compels you to think science-fictionally: how would this work? (Or not work, as the case may be.) You start imagining a crazy quilt of societies, and for me it was not far from there to something like Norlonto in The Star Fraction. Then there are the ecologists, but I can only imagine dystopias about them …
Via Ken MacLeod’s blog, word that David D. Friedman is writing a book on the future.
I must confess I have not been able to make it through any of Goodkind’s massive fantasy tomes. When the first book I received was volume seven or eight in an on-going series, it’s tough to get into the plot. However, Goodkind has been nominated several times in the past for the Prometheus Award, and his books are deeply influenced by Objectivist ideas. Fans of Goodkind (or those interested in individualism in fiction) might be interested in a new and lengthy interview published online yesterday.
1. No excuses. The new Special edition DVD of Serenity is on sale at Amazon for the sweet price of $8.99
2. Dark Horse Comics announces a new set of Serenity comic books.
3. Firefly/Serenity themed lunchboxes (again, from Dark Horse at same link as above).
This is too, too funny.
It’s going to be a long wait until May 2008, when Melinda Snodgrass’s new novel is published. This looks like a killer book. Bigger cover at Snodgrass’s web site.
While the winner of this year’s Prometheus Award is still touring Japan fresh from receiving his prize at the 2007 WorldCon, Pyr (an imprint of Prometheus Books – no connection) has posted a notice on their blog about the first public nominee of the 2008 Prometheus Award – Adam Roberts’ Gradisil.
Direct from Yokohama, Stross’s Glasshouse garners the 2007 Prometheus Award (a real gold coin). When I mulled over my vote a couple of months ago, this was the novel I placed first.
The Guardian (UK) posts a list of it’s top 10 dystopian novels. I have read eight of the ten, the only exceptions being the Meg Rosoff novel, of which I’ve never heard, and the James Clavell book. I’ve read several of his novels, but never heard of this story.
