Posts published in: 2017/03

Review: Saiensu Fikushon 2016 (Haikasoru)

Posted on 2017-03-27 at 18:08 by montsamu

Saiensu Fikushon 2016 (Haikasoru, 2016) is a sushi sampler sized feast of bizarre, compelling, and legitimately technophobia-inducing speculative fiction from Japan, launching a new annual (we can hope!) mini-anthology series that hearkens back (with its conception and cover design, at least) to classic Japanese manga anthologies. Here's the publisher description:

Three new stories from three of the best science fiction writers in Japan:

"Overdrive" by Toe EnJoe — How fast is the speed of thought?

"Sea

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March newsletter: Mur Lafferty, Renee Ahdieh, Samantha Shannon, John Scalzi, Roshani Chokshi, Oak City Comicon, more events, awards news, writing camps, and more

Posted on 2017-03-07 at 19:06 by montsamu

Vol 7 No 2. Monday, March 6, 2017: Thankfully February was a short month again this year, so I hope you'll forgive me for not having a newsletter out last month. Unfortunately I must ask your further indulgence for still not including a full "news and notes" or even "new books and audiobooks" section in this newsletter, even as (especially) publication notes begin to pile up to the ceiling! But enough of my groveling, let's jump right in and talk about some upcoming events:

The big event this week is

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Paul Kincaid's From the Other Side, December 2016: Ken MacLeod, Jonathan Oliver, NewCon Press, Infinity Plus, and a farewell for now

Posted on 2017-03-04 at 19:35 by montsamu

From the Other Side, December 2016 By Paul Kincaid

[Editor’s Note: From the Other Side is Paul Kincaid’s monthly column on books and news from the other side of the Atlantic. For this installment, again my apologies to all for the extreme lateness of publication. The fault is, again, entirely mine.]

And another year is dead and gone. Let’s face it, 2016 didn’t exactly do any of us any favours, so I suspect we’re all pretty pleased to see the back of it. Except, of course, that 2017 doesn’t particularly

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