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SF Tidbits for 7/31/09
@Book View Cafe: Ursula K. Le Guin on Literary Bests: “I don’t believe there are three ‘best’ works of American or any other fiction of the last sixty years — or ten ‘best,’ or a hundred. Maybe a...
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SF Tidbits for 9/7/09
The Examiner lists Top 10 SciFi/Fantasy movies coming this Fall. Included is the premise for the new Rambo film, which involves technologically-enhanced soldiers. They’d have to be: Stallone is 63...
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EVENT: The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings Presents ‘A Journey to...
If you are in the New York City area on Tuesday, March 6th, it’d be worth your time to check out The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading scheduled for that night: A Journey to Barsoom! The...
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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 119): Panel Discussion – What Are You Reading?
In episode 119 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester asks a panel of SF Signal Irregulars: What are you reading? This week’s panel: Stina Leicht Jaym Gates Derek Johnson John Stevens Patrick Hester...
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The Word and The Brain: The Creative (and Vital) Speculations of Reading
“At this very moment, your brain is accomplishing an amazing feat — reading.” – Stanislas Dehaene “[R]eading does not begin or end when eyes apprehend the words on the page, but long before that and...
View ArticleVIDEO: Roger Zelazny Reads BLOOD OF AMBER Excerpt “Loki 7281”
David Barr Kirtley has discovered this gem of a video…and recording from the 1986 4th Street Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis, where this Roger Zelazny reading was recorded. It an exceprt from Blood...
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The Bellowing Ogre: 12 Excogitations on the Reading of Fantastika
“All writing depends on the generosity of the reader.” – Alberto Manguel I have a lot of ideas rattling around in my head this week, so I thought that I would write them down, still-forming and...
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15 Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers Worth Your Time
My latest space opera novel, The Returning, follow up to last year’s The Worker Prince, wound up being modeled after thrillers like Robert Ludlam’s Bourne novels and got me thinking a lot about great...
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Quick Meme: Last Book You Read / Book You Are Reading Now / Book You Will...
It’s time for a Quick Meme! Answer these three questions: What book did you read last? What book are you reading now? What book will you read next? My answers: Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout (Mystery,...
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Diving Into Pandemonium: Some Turbulent Postulations About Reading and the...
“In metaphorical terms, one could say that the processes essential to the reading mind are not mechanical or computational, but more oceanic, that is, dynamic, fluvial and fluctuating.” Michael Burke....
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The Grumplesnark’s Pantagruelian Vexation and Other Fables of Unconsummated...
Everyone has their quirks and habits as a reader, and one of mine is that I dislike not finishing a story. Many readers share this predilection; the reasons vary, from a generalized love of reading to...
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October 6 is Star Wars Reads Day
Are you ready for Star Wars Reads Day? October 6, 2012 has been designated Star Wars Reads Day, a multi-publisher initiative that celebrates reading and Star Wars, with events taking place in...
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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 208): Panel of Irregulars – What Books Do We...
In episode 208 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester welcomes two of our newest Irregulars, Sarah Chorn and Ria Bridges, along with a couple of long-term Irregulars, Larry Ketchersid and Lisa Paitz...
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iProp: The Perfect Solution for the Picky Reader
I’m a picky reader. There. I said it. My pickiness has not so much to do with what I’m reading and more to do with the process of reading. What I mean is that everything about the reading process has...
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