This is why we love Locus: Online and Mark Kelly. Following on from a promise just days ago, he’s alread put up a 2004 Directory of Cover Artists. Check it out. Offer commentary. He might even add a way for you to add info to, making it easier on him. This is very cool.
I’ve been posting too much over at Deb’s blog, talking about Australian SF and such. If you’re interested, there’s a link somewhere over there on the right. In the meantime , I’ve spent a little time surfing the next and come across a couple cool things:
Link link
Salon’s Laura Miller loves Kelly’s Magic for Beginners. I do too, and so will you.
Mark’s list link
Mark over at Locus Online is intending to add information about editors to his book listings, and to put together a list of work by cover artists for each year. These are the reasons why Mark deserved his Hugo, and why we should all love what he does. He’s one of those people who does cool, useful stuff without anyone much noticing. It takes a lot of work, and he does it all pretty much on his own and unpaid too.
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Ellen over at SciFiction has just posted a terrific new M. Rickert story, “Anyway”, which you should check out.
And a comment. Yesterday I received the October Realms of Fantasy in the mail. It’s the alternate issue, the one that comes without the soft porn cover, and it has a cool story by Tim Pratt and Greg van Eekhout. It’s called “Robots and Falling Hearts”, and is a lovely piece. I read it pretty quickly last night, and liked it very much. I think I might post a kind of review tonight or tomorrow, but I’d like to re-read it first.
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I am a very fickle reader. It’s rare book that, if I’m not in the mood, can pull me along regardless. For some reason, right now I feel a need to read something with starships in it. I do not have anything with starships in it on the ‘to read’ shelf. I’m hoping to see Al Reynolds Pushing Ice pretty soon, which should hit the spot. In the meantime, I’m reading Gwyneth Jones’ Band of Gypsys and not really doing it justice. Similarly, I just dipped into Hal Duncan’s Vellum. Tried the first forty or so pages, and it seems cool. But, there’s something about the structure, will all of these italicised section headings, that is really putting me off. I think when I hit it in the right mood I’ll love it, but right now…I know to wait. So, I’m guessing it’s either Jeff’s The Cosmology of the Wider World, or short fiction tonight. Hmmm.
The latest issue of Ticonderoga Online came out a while back, and somehow I missed it. Given that it includes a rather dubious interview with me, which I somehow blocked from memory I guess that’s understandable. Still, Russ Farr and his crew are doing a cool job. You should check it out.