BNA_Daily | September 8, 2010
Today’s news is all about lists–short lists, fantasy lists, and celebrity lists. Browsing them will leave you with some suggestions of what to read (and what NOT to read).
The Man Booker short list was announced yesterday, and some big names were notoriously absent. Both David Mitchell and Christos Tsiolkas failed to make the final six–Mitchell [...]
BNA_Daily | February 22, 2010
Today’s news focuses on science fiction and fantasy, from the Nebula Awards to vampires to an emerging genre of paranoid fiction. Speaking of which, is that your boss looking over your shoulder?
The 2009 Nebula Award finalists have been announced, and Omnivoracious blogger Jeff VanderMeer (who also happens to be a nominated author), gives a brief [...]
BNA_Editor | January 11, 2010
The term “science fiction” has never been precisely defined and in fact there have been many spirited arguments among fans about where the boundaries should be set or whether or not some specific book should be included. There were and still are disagreements about whether the term should be viewed only as a genre label [...]
BNA_Daily | May 13, 2009
With Star Trek and Wolverine dominating box office sales, it seems natural to dedicate a post to science fiction and fantasy. Despite the recession (or perhaps because of it), thousands of Americans are spending money to escape into movies that take them out of this world. Chances are many of these movie buffs are also [...]
BNA_Editor | April 28, 2009
2009 has been a hard year on literary figures so far, with the world losing John Updike in January and the great J.G. Ballard last Sunday. A master of postmodern irony, Ballard wrote across a wide spectrum of topics and themes, ranging from the apocalyptic extremes of The Drowned World and The Drought to the [...]
D_DAmmassa | January 20, 2009
During the 1980s, science fiction became more reflective of the present than the future and has subsequently become increasingly interested in short term extrapolations rather than the future a century or more from now. Although there have been notable exceptions, most writers – particularly newcomers to the field – have shown little interest in galactic [...]
D_DAmmassa | January 16, 2009
Stories that we would now consider science fiction were already being widely read well before that term was invented. Some historians of the field trace it back to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or even earlier. Scientific romances were not thought of as a separate genre until the 1930s when the rise of the pulp magazine segregated [...]
