Movie Night: Impossible Dreams

No update tomorrow so we thought we'd leave you with something fun for the weekend! The film Impossible Dreams, written and directed by Shir Comay, based on the story "Impossible Dreams" by Tim Pratt. Israel, 2011. 22 minutes. In Hebrew, with English subtitles.  Starring Ori Yaniv and Ayala Zilberman. The full film can be watched free on youtube....

Introducing Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology

Our own Charles A. Tan has been busy - not only is he nominated, for the second year running, for the World Fantasy Award (for his blog, Bibliophile Stalker) but US-based published Lethe Press have just released his new anthology, Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology.   About the anthology: Filipinos and Chinese have a rich, vibrant literature...

Cheryl Morgan interviews Finnish writer and editor Anne Leinonen

Over at International SF, Cheryl Morgan interviews Anne Leinonen, a Finnish writer and editor: Cheryl: Anne, I know you mainly as a writer of excellent short stories, and also as a tireless promoter of your fellow Finnish writers through the Usva International magazine, but I gather now that you are starting to do very well with your...

Short Story Highlight: “Undercity” by Nir Yaniv, at Apex Magazine

Apex Magazine have just published Israeli author Nir Yaniv's story, Undercity. The story was published in the exclusive pre-order edition of The Apex Book of World SF 2 but will not be available in the regular edition. You can, however, read it for free online! That day, the complacent city received three warnings. No one bothered to...

Lord, Okorafor win Carl Brandon Awards

Via Locus: The Carl Brandon Society has announced that Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord and Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor are the 2010 Carl Brandon Awards winners. Redemption in Indigo won the Carl Brandon Parallax Award, given to works of speculative fiction created by a self-identified person of color, and Who Fears Death was awarded the Carl Brandon Kindred Award, given to any...

RIP Roland C. Wagner (1960-2012)

I was horrified to find out that French writer Roland C. Wagner had died unexpectedly in a car crash on Sunday in Gironde, France. Wagner's wife, the science fiction writer Sylvie Denis, was in the car along with the couple's 18 year old daughter. Both were taken to hospital with injuries but are recovering. Roland...

Strange Horizons reviews The Apex Book of World SF 2

A lengthy review in Strange Horizons for The Apex Book of World SF 2: What is "world SF?" For a young white man living an admittedly bourgeois lifestyle in the pleasing (though occasionally frigid) climes of Canada, the term conjures the image of a dusty marketplace where women wearing colourful hijabs trade coffee beans for...

Tuesday Fiction: “Morrie and the Grand Potato” by Tom Learmont

Today's Tuesday Fiction is by Tom Learmont. Tom was born in the Golden Age of Science Fiction – to grow up in Scotland and Rhodesia, filled with “sensawunda” from reading H.G. Wells, Theodore Sturgeon and James Blish. He scraped a degree and taught for a few years. Then he bought a typewriter, commenced living by...

Starred Review in Publishers Weekly for The Apex Book of World SF 2!

With The Apex Book of World SF 2 imminent, Publishers Weekly have just given it a starred review, saying: Apex’s second international anthology hits the right chord for readers looking for mostly non-Western perspectives on science fiction and the world at large. Some stories are original to this anthology; others appear in their first English...

On Science Fiction in Hindi

Over at Internova, an excellent article on Science Fiction in Hindi, by Arvind Mishra and Manish Mohan Gore: The first boom in genre SF writing in Hindi took place in the 1970s with the appearance on the scene of prolific writers like Kailash Sah, Maya Prasad Tripathi, Shukdev Prasad, Rajeshwar Gangavar and Devendra Mawadi who among...