Howard Waldrop is a brilliant, iconoclastic and thoughtful writer. His prose is as dense as depleted uranium, and as intricately constructed as DNA. He’s blogging at Not A Journal, the blog of the crew behind Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. His first essay is a typically Waldrop-ian journey from Rozerem to beavers to the opening of the American west and the Civil War.
Tag Archives: science fiction
How the future looked in the past – gallery of old Interzone covers
Take a trip back into the early eighties – here’s an archive of scanned covers from old editions of Interzone. As far as graphic design is concerned, we’ve come a long way, baby. [Full disclosure: I am Interzone‘s reviews editor.]
“Worldbuilder’s Bible” available for download
Aspiring space opera writers, take note: you can now download the Rand Corporation’s 1964 report document “Habitable Planets for Man” as a PDF file for personal use, a piece of work
described as being the ultimate guide to creating plausible fictional worlds … even though it was meant for more ‘serious’ purposes. [SlushGod] [image by SideLong]
Doctorow’s ‘whuffie’ made real
Via Bruce Sterling comes yet another example of a science fictional idea brought to life – RapLeaf looks to be a nascent incarnation of the ‘whuffie’ reputation economy from Cory Doctorow’s
novel Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom.
Yet more free fiction
Freshly arrived in the tubes of the intarwebs this week: Subterranean Online has just added a Mike Resnick story and a rare Charles Stross reprint to their latest edition (bringing the issue’s story count to eight), and Afterburn SF has seven new pieces of work online, including a story whose title alone is a work of genius:
Ben Burgis’s “Three Perspectives on the Role of the Anarchists in the Zombie Apocalypse“.