Author: Alex Irvine
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RIP Weekly World News
This makes me sad, in the same way that I get sad because America’s proud tradition of hucksterism is increasingly subsumed within politics and televangelism. (Where have you gone, PT Barnum? Getting ripped off by the spinny-dart-machine guy at Coney Island just isn’t the same.) The last WWN I bought offered the untold story of…
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Another Story Online
I don’t know why I didn’t notice this before, but the first story I ever published, “Rossetti Song,” is online at the Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet web site, which also features terrific fiction from Kelly Link, Christopher Rowe, Carol Emshwiller, Ray Vukcevich…the list goes on. Also some cool nonfiction pieces. You can’t go wrong.
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Books Vs. Trees
So books are made from trees, and there are those who think that book readers need to make environmental amends for reading. Along comes Eco-Libris, a well-meaning outfit that will take your money and put it towards planting trees. Here’s my question, though. Eco-Libris helps to fund tree-planting efforts in developing nations. Do American publishers…
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Did Anyone Ever Know?
Over at Bookslut, Paul Kincaid has an interesting column about award processes (he either was or still is administrator of the Arthur C. Clarke award), and he takes the time to ask the question, “Does Anyone Even Know What Science Fiction Is Anymore?” A sample: …we have lost our sense of what science fiction is.…
Crooked House Fictions 