For the month of April, FM will be presenting in four segments, all the recommended reading selections listed in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010 Edition, edited by Rich Horton, which is forthcoming in June 2010 from Prime Books.
I loathe genre distinctions, and yes, “Lighter Than Air” is a perfect example why. There isn’t anything in it that isn’t scientifically possible, and yet thematically and story-logic wise, it’s a kind of fantasy.
After much (read: a minute or two) debate, we opted to watch the original theatrical release with the Tangerine Dream soundtrack instead of the director’s cut since the express purpose of this project is to re-watch what we saw as kids, which most assuredly had some citrus nightmares going on (yuk yuk yuk), so unless noted that’s the version we’re referring to here.
Carrie Vaughn is known for her series of novels about Kitty Norville, werewolf and radio talk show host. She has two more Kitty novels appearing in 2010 but, happily, she is expanding her range, with a couple non-Kitty novels also scheduled. Her first Young Adult novel is Voices of Dragons, which opens what looks to be another enjoyable series.
Meghan Chase is a fifteen-year-old misfit. She’s never fit in at her school, never had any close friends (besides Robby), is at odds with her mother and stepfather, and barely tolerates her half-brother Ethan. In the twenty-four hours before she turns sixteen, Meghan discovers that she’s a by-blow of Oberon, King of the Seelie Court, Robbie is Robin Goodfellow a.k.a Puck, and Ethan’s been kidnapped by a new rogue element set to destroy all of Faerie: The Iron King. Julie Kagawa told me all about her new book last summer at Hypericon, so I was very excited to finally sit down and read it. I was even more excited to sit down with Julie and talk to her a little bit about Meghan, madness, and the magic behind her debut YA novel The Iron King.
Yes, the Cloud Nine does have wings. Huge wings, each twice as long as the ship itself and ten feet thick, covered atop with what can only be checkerboard grids of black solar cells, their trailing edges spouting long lines of presently immobile propellers. It’s like standing on the back of a gigantic metal manta ray.
For the month of April, FM will be presenting in four segments, all the recommended reading selections listed in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010 Edition, edited by Rich Horton, which is forthcoming in June 2010 from Prime Books.
Karen Heuler’s stories have appeared in dozens of literary and speculative magazines and anthologies from Alaska Quarterly Review and Arts & Letters to Weird Tales. She has published two novels and a short story collection, and has won an O. Henry award. Her latest novel, Journey to Bom Goody, concerns strange doings in the Amazon. [...]
Bizarro Fiction is a fairly new genre, most often referred to as literature’s equivalent of the Cult section in your video store. One of the founders and core producers of Bizarro fiction is Eraserhead Press, lead by publisher Rose O’Keefe. So I asked Rose a few questions to help clarify just what Bizarro Fiction is (and isn’t). WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE.
The Bell at Sealey Head is prime Patricia A. McKillip: a lyrical, unpredictable fantasy novel of quiet elegance and complex characterization, every bit as marvelous and evocative as its lovely Kinuko Y. Craft cover. As you might expect from a World Fantasy Award and Mythopoeic Award-winning author who is one of America’s finest, The Bell at Sealey Head is one of the best books published last year. And, if you’re a true bibliophile, it’s unlikely you’ll find another novel that better demonstrates how and why you love books.
