Bruce Sterling has a new book coming out, a collection of stories called Visionary in Residence. It’s to be published by Thunder’s Mouth Press , and features most of his post-A Good Old Fashioned Future short fiction. I think Bruce is, and has for two decades, been one of the most interesting science fiction writers working in the field. I have a feeling that this is one of the books we most likely will, and should, be talking about this year. In case you’re interested, the table of contents for the book is:
I. Science Fiction
In ParadiseII. Fiction About Science
LuciferaseIII. Fiction for Scientists
Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct
Ivory Tower
Message Found In a BottleIV. Architecture Fiction
The GrowthingV. Design Fiction
User-CentricVI. Mainstream Fiction
CodeVII. Cyberpunk Meets Ribofunk
The Scab’s Progress (with Paul Di Filippo)
Junk DNA (with Rudy Rucker)VIII. The Past is a Future That Already Happened
The Necropolis of Thebes
The Blemmye’s Stratagem
The Denial
Bruce Sterling has done a State of the World: 2006 over at the well. If you haven’t seen it already, it’s worth checking out.
Last year Garth Nix and I attended the World Fantasy Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. While we were there, Garth hosted the biggest and best party of the convention – a party aimed at both having a good time and promoting Australian science fiction and fantasy. As part of the event, I helped Garth put together a catalogue of some (not all!) of the new science fiction and fantasy by Australians set to be published in 2006. For those interested, Garth has put the catalogue online, and you can:
The event was a good thing, and the catalogue was neat too. Check it out.
* This post has been edited to correct the address for the catalogue.
…unavoidable stuff from jonathan strahan…
Bruce Sterling has a new book coming out, a collection of stories called Visionary in Residence. It’s to be published by Thunder’s Mouth Press , and features most of his post-A Good Old Fashioned Future short fiction. I think Bruce is, and has for two decades, been one of the most interesting science fiction writers working in the field. I have a feeling that this is one of the books we most likely will, and should, be talking about this year. In case you’re interested, the table of contents for the book is: