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
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:
John C. Wright has been publishing new stories set in the world of William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land over at Andy Robertson’s The Night Land website. I thought the first of the stories, Awake in the Night, was terrific, and reprinted it in Best Short Novels: 2004. The second, The Last of all Suns, was also good. A third story, The Cry of the Night Hound, is currently being published in several parts (Part 1, Part 2) and looks pretty interesting. All of the stories are long, so I’m guessing that someone will produce a book of them which would make for a good book.
A few things that have come to my attention of late:
first, Jeff VanderMeer’s cool new novel, Shriek: An Afterword, will be on sale in Australia in about six weeks. Check out the info on the book at the link above or over at Jeff’s website.
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: