Book Review: The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2014 edited by Rich Horton

My diverse reading (which extends well beyond SF/F) makes it unfeasible for me to catch everything of interest or of merit. I, thus, appreciate the multiple anthologies each year that offer their unique selections of noteworthy short stories. This marks the sixth year of Horton’s relatively young Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy series, but it happens to […]

225. Godzilla vs. Kaiju Panel at CONvergence 2014

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Top 10 Episodes and Blog Posts for August 2014

In case you missed a few things, here’s what was popular last month! Episodes: 215. Kim Stanley Robinson (a.k.a. The Ethnographer) — Shaman (An Interview) 214. Dutch SF Roundtable w/ Tiemen Zwaan, Marieke Nijkamp, Martijn Lindeboom, and Thomas Olde Heuvelt 219. Kameron Hurley (a.k.a. The Patriarchy Smarsher) — The Mirror Empire (An Interview at CONvergence) […]

218. Live at CONvergence w/ Martha Wells and Carrie Patel

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214. Dutch SF Roundtable w/ Tiemen Zwaan, Marieke Nijkamp, Martijn Lindeboom, and Thomas Olde Heuvelt

http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SandFEpisode214DutchSFRoundtable/SandF%20–%20Episode%20214%20–%20Dutch%20SF%20Roundtable.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSLiterary festivities, multicultural wonders, and invading Dutch peeps, oh my!  We’ve got a special World SF-themed episode for you all.  Tiemen Zwaan, Marieke Nijkamp, Martijn Lindeboom, […]

Book Review: Reach for Infinity edited by Jonathan Strahan

Jonathan Strahan’s third “Infinities” anthology, Reach for Infinity, changes focus yet again for the series. While Engineering Infinity and Edge of Infinity explored solid Solar System-set science fiction, Reach for Infinity’s stories and mission concern the attempts of man to get into the solar system, pulling back even further from the more grandiose hard science fiction […]