Monday Original Content: An Interview with Frank Haubold

German author Frank Habuold is a winner of the Kurd-Laßwitz Award. He is the author, with Gill Ainsworth, of the collection Seasons of Insanity, published by Apex Books. Frank Haubold interviewed by Charles Tan Hi Frank! Thanks for agreeing to do the interview. First off, how did you first become acquainted with science fiction and fantasy?...

World SF: Our Possible Future

The following article by Charles Tan is reprinted from Apex Magazine. It was published in the pre-order edition of The Apex Book of World SF 2. The trade edition is out now - it is available direct from the publisher, through Amazon and Amazon UK, and or Kindle (US - UK). World SF: Our Possible Future...

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...

Monday Original Content: REVIEW: Three Messages and A Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic

This week Charles Tan reviews Three Messages and A Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, edited by Eduardo Jiménez Mayo and Chris N. Brown and published by Small Beer Press. We'll have more material on the book this week, so stay tuned! Three Messages and A Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic edited...

Pre-Order The Apex Book of World SF 2, Get Bonus Content, Early Delivery!

In order to promote the forthcoming release of The Apex Book of World SF 2, we've decided to offer a very special edition to anyone pre-ordering the paperback edition. While the trade edition is scheduled for August, anyone ordering a copy by April 30th will receive their copy in May (three months early!) and with unique bonus...

Original Content: Interview with Sayuri Ueda, author of The Cage of Zeus (Haikasoru)

We've been offering original content throughout this relaunch week: today, Charles Tan interviews Japanese author Sayuri Ueda, whose novel The Cage of Zeus is published by Haikasoru (translated by Takami Nieda). The Rounds are humans with the sex organs of both genders. Artificially created to test the limits of the human body in space, they...

Charles Tan on the World SF Travel Fund

First, some good news! So far we've raised (as I type this) $3,924! That's a tremendous response from some wonderful people, and means we're only $2000 short of our goal of two years' worth of funding (and can we make it three years? Can we? Can...) Charles has written a heart-felt essay about the fund and...

Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 6 Book Launch

Our own, intrepid Charles Tan The talented Kenneth Yu went deep undercover at the Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 6 Book Launch, equipped with camera, to bring you a visual record of the Philippines' SF scene. We might beat Locus at this game yet! Group shot of the contributors, editors, and publisher. World SF News Blog...

Redstone SF Interview Charles Tan

Our very own Charles Tan, "Asia’s best-known spec-fic fan and blogger", is interviewed over at Redstone Science Fiction by Paul Clemmons: I am an uber-geek.  I love card games, video games, tabletop and digital RPGs, miniatures, books, movies, comics and manga.  I want to write, but I don’t want just that small part, but the...

Just a note…

Lavie will be in the UK from next week - you can catch up with him at Eastercon, and he will also be signing new novel Camera Obscura at Forbidden Planet. Seeing as he's adamant not to do any work, Charles will be running the blog in the meantime!