My Superpower and Mini-Interview: James Dashner

My Superpower is a regular guest column on the Skiffy and Fanty blog where authors and creators tell us about one weird skill, neat trick, highly specialized cybernetic upgrade, or other superpower they have, and how it helped (or hindered!) their creative process as they built their project. Today we welcome James Dashner to talk about how […]

The Disquieting Guest — RIP Mike Vraney

On January 2, Mike Vraney, the founder of Something Weird Video, passed away. You can read his obituary here. I would like to offer my condolences to his family and his friends and to comment briefly on the importance of his archival work. Because though Something Weird is, of course, a business, it is one […]

The World SF Tour Begins on Monday (1/13/14)

And here’s what’s on the docket for the month of January (dates may shift, but are otherwise firm): 1/13:  Hebrew SF and Translation w/ Didi Chanoch (translator) and Rani Graff (publisher) 1/15:  Interview w/ Lavie Tidhar on The Violent Century (Hodder & Stoughton) 1/17 1/18 1/19:  Shoot the WISB discussion on The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) […]