Speculative Fiction from Around the World
Sarah is a writer of science-fiction and fantasy roleplaying games and fiction, including the transhuman space opera novel "Mindjammer", and the ENnie Award-winning RPG setting of the same name; the techno-fantasy RPG setting “The Chronicles of Future Earth”; and the “Legends of Anglerre” roleplaying game. She’s currently writing “Zero Point”, a series of globe-spanning World... Continue Reading →
Today's Tuesday Fiction is by Sarah Newton. Sarah is a writer of science-fiction and fantasy roleplaying games and fiction, including the transhuman space opera novel Mindjammer, and the ENnie Award-winning RPG setting of the same name; the techno-fantasy RPG setting The Chronicles of Future Earth; and the Legends of Anglerre roleplaying game. She’s currently writing... Continue Reading →
Back in March this year I had the great opportunity to take over from Debbie Moorhouse as fiction editor here at the World SF Blog. In the previous months, Debbie had blazed a trail, publishing short fiction works by authors from all over the globe, and naturally I jumped at the chance to help build... Continue Reading →
From the BSFA: Han Song On Wednesday 10th Octber 2012, Han Song (Chinese Science Fiction author) will be interviewed by Lavie Tidhar (Israeli SF writer), with Antoaneta Becker translating. Although little of his work has been translated into English* Han Song is one of the most prolific of Chinese SF writers, and has won the prestigious... Continue Reading →
Over at Weird Fiction Review, Brendan Connell profiles Italian writer Luigi Ugolini: Luigi Ugolini (1891 – 1980) was an Italian writer who garnered an international reputation for his short stories. Early on, Ugolini wrote articles and tales for newspapers. Later he dedicated himself almost exclusively to fiction for young people, which included works of historical biography and a sequel... Continue Reading →
New Thai writer Benjanun Sriduangkaew has a new story in The Future Fire magazine: Courtship in the Country of Machine-Gods: In the shadow of machine-gods I tell wayfarers of a time where my people was a nightmare the color of hemorrhage and glinting teeth. There are other narratives, but this is one they want to hear most, the... Continue Reading →
Today's Tuesday Fiction is by Ben Godby. Ben writes mysteriously thrilling pseudo-scientific weird western adventure fantasy tales. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario with a girl, two dogs and a cat, and blogs at http://www.bengodby.com. This is the story's first publication. The Princess and the Shadowspawn Ben Godby Along the banks of Big Kruarnoth, factories compete... Continue Reading →
Over at io9, we have Lauren Beukes's short story, Branded, available to read - one of the 26 stories now available in The Apex Book of World SF 2. Check it out and consider buying the anthology - direct from the publisher or via Amazon or Amazon UK! We were at Stones, playing pool, drinking, goofing... Continue Reading →
Larry Yudelson sent us this link, From Flavorwire: Trippy ’70s Soviet Space Magazine Covers. If you like these, also check out our earlier post on Chinese space art.
Following our post on Heinlein and racism on Friday, maybe we should just do an American Week on the WSB? It seemed to have raised some interesting discussions across the Internet, as N.K. Jemisin writes. There's still a lot of debate going on right now post-Readercon and Genevieve Valentine's complaints of being sexually harassed there.... Continue Reading →
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