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In November, the io9 Book Club read Ekaterina Sedia's Heart of Iron. Now Sedia is coming to answer your questions about the book tomorrow, Friday, December 2. More »
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Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. In October, we read Ekaterina Sedia's novel Heart of Iron. Jump into comments to get started talking about it! More »
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The io9 Book Club meets once per month to discuss a book, and then the author usually joins us for a chat. In November, we're meeting on the 29th to discuss Ekaterina Sedia's Heart of Iron. Watch for a post that day announcing the book club, and jump into comments for discussion! There's still time to read the book, too. More »
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With The House of Discarded Dreams, Ekaterina Sedia has written a satisfyingly complicated coming-of-age novel where "adulthood" isn't about leaving fantasy behind. In this beautiful, surreal story, a young biologist discovers that dreams are as meaningful as empirical research. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5563646&view=rss&microfeed=true If you've got a fantastic story idea about a were-creature, now's your time to try your hand at it. Ekaterina Sedia, author of the fantastic Alchemy Of Stone and editor of a few anthologies including the werewolf-themed Running With The Pack, put out a call for submissions for a new anthology of were-creature stories. She'll still look at werewolf stories, but she's also interested in other types of dark shapeshifters. The anthology will be called Bewere The Night. [Fish Monkey] More »
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This may be the best era for original anthologies since the days of Dangerous Visions. Jonathan Strahan announced the final list of contributors for Eclipse 3, and it's made of want. Other anthologies promise down-and-dirty werewolves, and stellar flash fiction. More »
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A couple of weeks ago, I told you about a haunting new novel from Ekaterina Sedia called Alchemy of Stone. It's the tale of a female robot named Mattie who works as a chemist on an alternate world where the industrial revolution is in full swing. Though the engineer who made Mattie has set her free, he refuses to give her the key that winds her mechanical heart. All Mattie wants is control of her own key and a peaceful place to work, but instead she gets caught up in a workers' revolt and her life begins to unravel. The novel was so thought-provoking that I tracked Sedia down and asked her some questions about female robots, politics, and magic. See what she said below. More »
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With a face made of porcelain, a wind-up heart, and a talent for alchemy, Mattie is hardly a typical science fictional robot. While most novels about robots focus on how these humanoid machines are stronger and smarter than humans, Ekaterina Sedia's The Alchemy of Stone (in bookstores this month) explores the vulnerability of mechanical beings who depend on humans for repairs and survival. Mattie is a rare emancipated automaton in an industrial city hovering on the edge of a workers' revolution. She's gone against the wishes of her Mechanic creator and joined the ranks of the biochemist-mystic Alchemists, selling medicines and perfumes to the city's middle class. Sedia's novel captures the surreal strangeness of a city whose power structure is about to be toppled, and her focus on Mattie's relationship with her creator allows her to grapple with the tiny power struggles inherent in all human relationships — especially those between men and women. More »
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