Category: fiction (Page 7 of 11)

When did the zombie genre decide that shambling, staggering undead walkers no longer were cool or scary, but now zombies need to move like a cross between hyperactive ants and piranhas? The trailer for World War Z certainly makes the zombie horde look terrifying, but at what cost in terms of the story?

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.

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.”