Science fiction

Given my respect for the field and for its readers and writers, I understand the disappointment with the gender balance of the contents for Eclipse Two. The truth is that under the pressure of needing to deliver and of my other work, I overlooked gender balance as an issue in the closing couple months of preparing Eclipse Two for publication.

After seeing another list of S.F. by White Men about White Men, the Feminist SF blog requests your nominations for good but obscure genre fiction that features ignored groups.

"I believe we should come up with our own list of obscure but superb science fiction novels. One in which we can list authors and books that are by/about groups that are generally still ignored in Sci-Fi circles."

A book’s ending can certainly make or break the entire read. After all, the final impression is most likely to be the strongest and most enduring. A few SF/F authors give their opinions on the question of good and bad endings here. Got any nominees yourself?

Obvious spoiler alert here if you haven’t read the books listed.

Which young adult sf/f titles, if any, would you recommend to an adult reader who would not otherwise consider reading YA fiction because they think it's only suitable for kids?

A lot of standards appear, but Scott Westerfield shows up in many answers from the all-star panel.

Official website of science fiction author Cliff Ball. Promoting a new novel, Out of Time.

The story is about a cloned scientist who invents the means to time travel and the adventures he and his time traveling crew have through 20th century history, including quite possibly causing the Roswell Incident in 1947.

These books, it should be admitted, are deeply awful, and as portrayals of their authors' ids, they're more than a little alarming. You don't want to look, but you can't look away. The awfulness becomes sublime. So why am I commenting about this? Well, because I feel a little like Richard Dreyfuss in JAWS, during the scar scene: "I got that beat." Permit me to introduce John Ringo.

So you've snapped up Michael Chabon's Nebula Award winning novel The Yiddish Policeman's Union, and now you want more thoughtful alternate histories to fill your brain and bookshelf. While there are literally hundreds of alternate histories out there (many of them written by various Michael Moorcocks and Harry Turtledoves in different timelines), a few standouts will help you get into the genre.

Winners of this year's Nebula Awards, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, were announced this evening, Saturday April 26, 2008. Best novel: Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Click through to see short story and cinema winners.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) will be handing out the Nebula Awards Saturday evening, 26 April 2008, at a ceremony in Austin, Texas. SFScope is not in Texas, but SFWA has announced that there will be a live feed of the ceremony available on line.

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