“Can I just say that all fiction is speculative; it’s just more obvious with dragons or spaceships that the author is making stuff up.”
Me
May42013
May32013
“The race to ‘have read’ is a pitiless and destructive thing. Re-reading is not only a profound pleasure, it is good and valuable too.”
https://twitter.com/Gollancz/status/330376124175638528
April282013
This was posted on Twitter… It’s from the UK Sunday Times (can’t see a link to it).
(Also, I went and checked the email exchange, and I spelled irrelevant correctly. Which puzzles me, about the Sunday Times and the concept of spell checking.)
8PM
“Times on Sunday: Why do you think contemporary American fiction seems to blow us out of the water?
Neil Gaiman: Does it? They don’t have a Pratchett or a Banks” https://twitter.com/Ruther2/status/328450574032961537
Neil Gaiman: Does it? They don’t have a Pratchett or a Banks” https://twitter.com/Ruther2/status/328450574032961537
March112013
Finalists for the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards in LGBT Children’s/Young Adult Books:
1. Adaptation, Malinda Lo, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
2. The Adventure of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy, S. Bear Bergman and Suzy Malik, Flamingo
Rampant3. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Simon & Schuster/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
4. Ask the Passengers, A.S. King, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
5. Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, Kirstin Cronn-Mills, Flux Books
6. Every Day, David Levithan, Knopf Books for Young Readers
7. Kiss the Morning Star, Elissa Janine Hoole, Amazon Children’s Publishing
8. The Miseducation of Cameron Post, emily M. danforth, Balzer + Bray
9. Personal Effects, E.M. Kokie, Candlewick Press
10. Silhouette of a Sparrow, Molly Beth Griffin, Milkweed Editions
(via kateelliottsff)
March42013
“‘Literary’ and ‘SFF’ aren’t mutually exclusive terms, no two genres are. A lot of the problem goes away when you realise that.”
@TomHPollock
March32013
“… the discussion invariably bends towards the *detail* of rape/murder/torture, rather than querying the need for its presence at all…”
@pornokitsch
March12013
“Speculative fiction is, happily, not the mainstream’s negative energy twin. Good SF and Fantasy, good Weird, good whatever you want to call it, is perfectly happy playing with human scale objects and emotions alongside technologies, magics and sciences which remake the outer world and in consequence alter or highlight the inner one. It just isn’t a conflict. You can’t genuinely depict “the ordinary mind on an ordinary day” in the developed world if you refuse to acknowledge the existence of the social web, CCTV cameras and online shopping. Human-ness doesn’t happen in the dark interior of the skull; it’s not Plato’s cave. It happens at the border of self and exterior, and that means it is affected by every outer trend. A human being without external stimuli does not develop a self in the same way as the rest of us. Our humanity is contingent on the world we encounter, which means that as we change the world so, to, we are changed. Small potatoes in speculative fiction, a huge matter for the mainstream.”
http://www.nickharkaway.com/2013/02/progressive-fiction-and-the-kitschies/
February172013
“The imbalance between SF’s regard for innovation in science and its disregard for innovation in writing is sometimes hard to support.”
@Gollancz
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