The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction » Net Miscellany http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog Editorial blog of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:33:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Tor’s free ebooks http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/07/23/tors-free-ebooks/ http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/07/23/tors-free-ebooks/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:38:24 +0000 John Joseph Adams http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/07/23/tors-free-ebooks/ By now most of you will have noticed Tor’s shiny new Tor.com website, which is chock full of geeky goodness. What you may not have noticed is that through July 27, you can go download all of the free ebooks that Tor had released via its Watch the Skies promotional newsletter over the course of the last several months. So go download before they’re gone forever!

]]> http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/07/23/tors-free-ebooks/feed/ 2 The Plausibility of Batman http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/07/23/the-plausibility-of-batman/ http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/07/23/the-plausibility-of-batman/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:37:59 +0000 John Joseph Adams http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/07/23/the-plausibility-of-batman/ Scientific American has a cool (and spoiler-free) article about the plausibility of Batman. It’s presented as a Q&A with the author of Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero. It looks pretty cool–a shame, though, that it’s not coming out til October; they’re going to miss all this free publicity, though maybe The Dark Knight will be just about ready for DVD by then.

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]]> http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/05/04/the-ant-king/feed/ 0 StarShipSofa on F&SF http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/04/05/starshipsofa-on-fsf/ http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/04/05/starshipsofa-on-fsf/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:10:36 +0000 John Joseph Adams http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/04/05/starshipsofa-on-fsf/ The podcast StarShipSofa has a new episode up focused on F&SF:

Today the StarShipSofa blasts off into the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Join Tony as he guides the Sofa across all the years of the magazines long life, from it’s initial concept with editors Anthony Boucher and J Francis McComas, to present editor and publisher Gordon Van Gelder. Get ready… Blast Off!

Go have a listen. [MP3 link]

]]> http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/04/05/starshipsofa-on-fsf/feed/ 0 VanderMeer interviews Paolo & Langan http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/04/03/vandermeer-interviews-paolo-langan/ http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/04/03/vandermeer-interviews-paolo-langan/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:53:22 +0000 John Joseph Adams http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/04/03/vandermeer-interviews-paolo-langan/ Jeff VanderMeer has recently done a couple of great interviews with some F&SF regulars. First up, as part of his "Conversations with the Bookless" series (in which he interviews authors of short fiction who don’t have books out yet), he talked to John Langan. And then, today, Jeff posted an interview over at the Amazon.com blog, Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer with Paolo Bacigalupi. Jeff also has a couple extra Q&As with Paolo that didn’t fit into the Omnivoracious piece over on his personal blog, Ecstatic Days.

]]> http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/04/03/vandermeer-interviews-paolo-langan/feed/ 0 Want to be a murder victim in a novel? http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/03/26/want-to-be-a-murder-victim-in-a-novel/ http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/03/26/want-to-be-a-murder-victim-in-a-novel/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:35:51 +0000 Gordon Van Gelder http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/03/26/want-to-be-a-murder-victim-in-a-novel/ Authors for Autism Research is currently hosting a bunch of auctions for the right to have a character named after you in upcoming novels by James Sallis, Elizabeth Moon, and a bunch of other writers. Check it out here:

http://members.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=authors_for_autism_speaks

I think I’m going to bid on one of Jodi Picoult’s novels myself—I know she’ll enjoy finding a way to put me in her novel.

]]> http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/03/26/want-to-be-a-murder-victim-in-a-novel/feed/ 1 Which SF Writer are You? http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/02/27/which-sf-writer-are-you/ http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/02/27/which-sf-writer-are-you/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:35:46 +0000 John Joseph Adams http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2008/02/27/which-sf-writer-are-you/ Ever wondered which science fiction writer you’re most like? Take this test to find out.

It thinks I’m most like Isaac Asimov. Not bad, but I’m disappointed I didn’t match up with Alfred Bester, who wrote the best book ever.

[via E. E. Knight]

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