In this interview from July 2012, Slattery discusses his latest novel, Lost Everything, a dark dystopian tale. I enjoyed Spaceman Blues and Liberation, but this books seems far darker than the previous two books.
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Tattered Cover Book Store’s author podcast series recently posted one with brilliant writer Jasper Fforde, author of a dozen novels, including The Eyre Affair, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Last Dragonslayer, and others. Hearing Fforde talk is as amusing and fresh as reading his fiction.
News via io9 that Lois Lowry’s award-winner novel finally might be made into a movie.
Available now to order, Bruce Boston and Gary Crawford’s dystopian poetry collection about the Shadow City. I blurbed this book, which I found dark and grim, with some brilliant imagery.
This news about Disney buying LucasFilm and planning a vast stream of Star Wars sequels seems almost like an early April Fools joke. Then again, the endless Clone Wars focus (live and animated) must end some time, right? And there are plenty of novels from which to mine movies in the Star Wars world. The experience will be a little watered down, but somewhere a good plot or space ship design will surface.
From Locus Online, a brief review of a story in the May/June 2012 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, with a story by Naomi Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter”, which features a setting on libertarian man-made islands. May need to locate a copy. There is a sequel, “High Stakes”, which implies a possible novel on the horizon.
A fascinating and nearly two-hour long video roundtable with Neal Stephenson at the University of Washington School of Law, discussing his most recent novel, REAMDE.
A few days ago Scott Bieser’s online graphic novel/web comic, Quantum Vibe switched from black and white to bright colors. A very nice makeover indeed!
Hard to argue with this post, which quotes Jeff Riggenbach saying, “All the best known libertarian novels are science fiction novels.”
I should have posted about this sooner, but forgot to link to this February 24 article from the UK’s Guardian online about the social realism of Scandinavian crime fiction. Of course, with all the noise surrounding Sweden’s Stieg Larsson and his Millennium trilogy, attention turns to other Scandinavian crime writers. No mention of Norway’s Gunnar Staalesen, alas. He’s a great writer, and a definite socialist, so would have fit this narrative perfectly. Certainly there are more Scandinavian socialist crime writers, because virtually every member of the literati there grew up a socialist or Marxist-Leninist. Socialism is part of the culture of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Still, there might be some anti-authoritarianism there, and crime fiction written from the perspective of non-police people lends itself more to question authority.
