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 | September 3, 2009
It’s a day of deep questions - is there too much violence in The Hunger Games and Catching Fire? Is Margaret Atwood a (gasp) genre writer? And has Twilight madness gone too far and threatened all that is literary? Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Is Margaret Atwood a sci-fi writer? Ursula Le Guin (a master [...]
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 [...]
