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The World Fantasy Society just announced the World Fantasy Award nominees and Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees.Winners will be announced at this year’s World Fantasy Convention, to be held October 27-30, in San Diego CA. The World Fantasy Awards have also announced the two winners of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. BEST NOVEL Zoo City, Lauren . . . → Read More: World Fantasy Award nominees and Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees We’ve been having a discussion in the Pub on which house in fantasy and science-fiction appeals to us. Lots of them got mentioned from, as one staffer noted, ‘The old, rambling building that houses the College of Shadows in Schweitzer’s Mask of the Sorcerer. Constantly shifting, new rooms appearing or disappearing, and a library that . . . → Read More: John Crowley’s Little, Big I thought I knew what cold was, before cold stripped me bare of thought, then blinded me and froze my heart. I could not feel such cold and live; cold forced me into something other, something not quite human, who held a dream with bones of ice, and did not remember names, only what we . . . → Read More: Considering Patricia McKillip Iain: Did I mention that things get a bit weird here at Green Man sometimes? Jack: things are always weird here — it’s just a matter of how weird they are! Grey: And yes, we’ve mentioned it. Many times. Jack says it most often. Jack: Only ’cause it’s true. Sometimes. Ahem. Ignore them as they . . . → Read More: Babbage Machines I’m back, and I’ve got all sorts of different things for you today. Books — we have books. (Well, we pretty much always have books, but still. . . .) We have another one of those might be thriller, might be sf, might be. . . ? Iain M. Banks continues his Culture . . . → Read More: Goodies It’s late afternoon on a perfect summer day (mid Twenties, cooling breeze) so the Neverending Session has decamped to the courtyard to sit under the Hanging Oaks and play more than a bit of John Playford’s compositions; the punters here decided to follow them as there’s a cask of St. George Nut Brown Ale on . . . → Read More: A quick music update Well, more books and music, and that should be enough. Hi, it’s me again, and we’ve got some really interesting things for you today. From the folklore of the Levant East comes Ron J. Suresha’s The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin, a retelling of tales of the Middle Eastern Wise Fool. And as . . . → Read More: More of Everything So what do you consider the best imagined setting in fantasy and science fiction? Akkaris in Frank Herbert’s Dune series? The world of Mote Prime in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s The Mote in God’s Eye series? The post-apocalyptic Minneapolis in Emma Bull’s Bone Dance? Or J.R.R.. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth perhaps? I’m choosing Earthsea as created . . . → Read More: Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea series Well, yes and no — I’m here doing a substitute gig for your regular posters, and I have to admit, what I mean by “miscellany” at Sleeping Hedgehog is not what I mean my “miscellany” here. However . . . . We’ve got books, which is pretty normal. We’re starting off with a collection of . . . → Read More: A Little Miscellany I’m sure you know of Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks novel and Cats Laughing, the folk rock group she was a member of, but I’ll bet that you haven’t heard of the Flash Girls, which was her other group. And more’s the pity as you really should hear all three of their albums. . . . → Read More: Flash Girls |
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