Chimeras interviews Aliette de Bodard

Chimeras interviews Aliette de Bodard. Here's an excerpt: EEG: In general, do you think that the two worlds -- writing and engineering -- are two completely different compartments in your life or do you feel you couldn't do one without the other? ADB: I definitely couldn't do one without the other: for one, I have...

World SF Travel Fund Extra Rewards – Last Two Days!

The authors of the Book View Cafe have generously joined us to offer a last-two-days-of-the-fund-raise bonus – donate anything from $10 and choose a free title from the list below! Visit our Peerbackers Project to donate!   While we have reached our goal of $6000, we are still short of the total due to paypal and peerbackers costs, and...

Monday Original Content: Chesya Burke interviews Karen Lord

Interview and Discussion with author Karen Lord By Chesya Burke I’ve had the distinct pleasure of being asked to interview the fabulous author of Redemption of Indigo, Karen Lord.  I spoke with her over the course of several weeks and got to know her as a writer.  Karen’s a fascinating person and it was wonderful...

Mary Anne Mohanraj’s new minority authors in SF/F syllabus

Mary Anne Mohanraj's is teaching a new university class on minority authors in SF/F. Her outstanding syllabus (we may be biased here!) includes The Apex Book of World SF, with several stories represented, alongside works from So Long Been Dreaming, Dark Matter and others. The full syllable is below - don't you wish you could...

An interview with Cheryl Morgan on the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards

So, we know the inspiration for these awards has been covered elsewhere, for example on New Zealand author Helen Lowe's blog, but I am curious how the board and the first year's jurors came together.  Also, it sounds from the FAQ on the website like you are going to have different jurors every year? It...

Esli

First published in Russkaya Fantastika, 18.01.2009. Translation by René Walling, editing by Val Grimm. Esli Magazine (, "If") is probably the oldest Russian sf magazine. Founded in 1991, but really distributed since 1993, it has a print run of 14,000 pocket sized issues a year. If you had to compare it to French magazines, Esli...

Weird Tales sold off; Staff fired

The news came in yesterday that venerable American magazine Weird Tales, most recently edited by Ann VanderMeer, under whose editorship it had won a Hugo Award and been nominated for three, is to be sold off. Publisher John Betancourt of Wildside Press is said to be selling the magazine to Marvin Kaye, a 73 year...

Women writers, international writers, marginalized writers

German writer Cora Buhlert has a post on Women writers, international writers, marginalized writers well-worth reading: There are the subtle and not so subtle assumptions that your grasp of the English language will be flawed, because you are not a native speaker (Read what Juliette Wade has to say about that here). This must be even more...

Mark Charan Newton on Minority in Genre Fiction

Mark Charan Newton writes on Science Fiction, Fantasy and Minorities: Like so many parts of our culture, the genre was - decades ago - dominated by straight white males. Audiences are now comfortable with characters such as Captain Jack Harkness, in Torchwood, who I think it's safe to say doesn't fit into the straight male...

Lavie Tidhar’s Jesus and the Eightfold Path

Lavie Tidhar's Jesus & The Eightfold Path is now available for pre-orders from Immersion Press. THREE WISE MEN CAME FROM THE EAST for the infant Jesus in The New Testament. Three brave companions accompany the Buddha in the Chinese classic A Journey to the West. Could they have been the same three? Guided by a star,...