A Book By Its Cover: Grave Dance by Kalayna Price

Book Cover Blurb: Darla Onomatopoeia  is an amateur Grave Dancer, one of the few people in Manhattan who still practices the ancient, misty art.  But unlike her mother, who once made a cemetery of Civil War veterans come to life and do the cha cha, Darla can barely raise her recently deceased grandmother long enough to […]

Feed the Machine: Genetic Time

Clicketh You all should realize now the the Long Now blog has some of the best story starters on the web, especially if you’re into concepts like time. This one is about the different times scales in our body, and what controls them, and what would happen if we could control them. What would happen […]

Episode 59 — Torture Cinema Meets War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave

http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow4.6–TortureCinemaMeetsWarOfTheWorlds2The/Sandf–Episode4.6–TortureCinemaMeetsWarOfTheWorlds2theNextWave.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSWhat could be worse than a remake of a remake of a remake of a remake of an adaptation of a remade adapted adaptation remake based […]

Book of Interest: The Office of Lost and Found by Vincent Holland-Keen

We’ll be posting about things like this every once in a while (i.e., promos for interesting books). Since we’ve already read one book from Anarchy Books (Serial Killers, Inc. — we loved it!), we figured it wouldn’t hurt to let you all know about another monstrosity to appear from their wicked coffers (of wickedness, no […]

Children of a Factory Nation Short Story Contest (Anarchy Books)

The deliciously twisted Andy Remic recently brought this contest to our attention, and now we’re bringing it to yours.  Make sure to spread the word: Jordan Reyne’s new album, Children of a Factory Nation, is being released September 2011 and follows a family who lived in Wales in the late 1800s during the Industrial Revolution. […]

Gollancz and the SF Gateway — What do you think?

Folks have been talking about the big news all day:  Gollancz is creating a new imprint designed to published ebooks of author’s backlists.  It’s called the SF Gateway (they’re also on Twitter).  One part “social network” and one part back list publishing scheme, this is probably a step in the right direction for Gollancz (and […]