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The next few months are positively packed with literary science fiction and fantasy goodness. Neal Stephenson returns to virtual reality! Vernor Vinge finally delivers the sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep. Plus dueling magicians and digital revolutionaries. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5833049&view=rss&microfeed=true Over the past few days, the winners of the Bram Stoker Awards (for horror fiction) and the finalists for the Sidewise Awards (for alternate history) were announced. Want to know what the best terrifying stories and allohistories are? More »
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Jay Lake just sold a novella to Prime Books, which could be his darkest, most intense work yet. Body modification and an exploration of the sexual underworld are just the start in Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5717398&view=rss&microfeed=true Metatropolis thrilled us with its near-future shared world and its daring take on urban decay and reinvention. So we're psyched that a second volume is coming out — focusing exclusively on one of the most memorable settings in the first book, the reborn Pacific Northwest known as Cascadia. Edited by Jay Lake, whose "In The Forests Of The Night" brought Cascadia to life, the new volume will once again be written for audio-book and released by Audible.com. Here's the blurb: More »
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If you spent hundreds of hours playing Dungeons & Dragons in your youth, it turns out that time wasn't wasted. Three successful authors tell Suvudu that D&D gave them the experience points to write decent novels and stories. More »
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For many aspiring science-fiction authors, the first frontier of publication is short fiction. A few stories published in the right markets can launch your career. But it helps if you're prolific. Here are 12 tips on writing more stories faster. More »
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The brilliant and prolific Jay Lake returns to the City Imperishable, with a Madness of Flowers. This is a decadent, surreal urban fantasy in the New Weird vein. Sex Dwarfs, spoilers, and a Polar Bear await. More »
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Whether you want a fun beach read or a sweeping philosophical epic, June's books have you covered. You can encounter witches in Toronto and killer courtesans, or you can delve into America's dismal future, or Alastair Reynolds' eon-spanning colonization saga. More »
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Jay Lake's sixth novel, Green , is an inventive fantasy of exotic cities, weird gods, conspiracies, stabbings, and kicks to the head. And here come the spoilers... More »
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Explore all the myriad ways of alternate history in Other Earths (DAW Books), ten new stories and a kickass must-read Lucius Shepard novella in a collection edited by Nick Gevers and Jay Lake. More »
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The futuristic city is often a supporting character in science fiction, but these urban visions rarely feel like places you could live in. So Metatropolis, a new anthology of city tales, is a nice surprise. More »
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Instead of reading about the stock market this afternoon, divert yourself by listening to some near-future tales of the ecopocalypse instead. The first story from John Scalzi's new audiobook anthology Metatropolis is online for free, and it sounds fantastic. Written by Jay "Mainspring" Lake and read by Michael "Saul Tigh" Hogan, the story is called "In the Forests of the Night" and it follows the general theme of the book, which is that environmental collapse has completely transformed urban life. More »
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A new crop of science fiction novels focus on what it would mean if Intelligent Design turned out to be the truth. Jay Lake's Escapement is a perfect example, as is Walter Jon Williams' Implied Spaces — both are novels about people in clockwork worlds designed by some kind of higher power associated with spiritual realms. Other recent tales, such as Charles Stross' Saturn's Children and Iain M. Banks' Matter, flirt with the idea of an Intelligent Designer by suggesting that under some circumstances it is the most logical explanation for reality: For instance, if you are a creature who lives in a synthetic world (or body) designed by sophisticated engineers, your existence has been literally created for you rather than randomly evolved. Are these scifi authors carving out a pro-science version of Intelligent Design theory? More »
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Yesterday we told you about a great new anthology edited by John Joseph Adams called Seeds of Change, and today we have a nice treat for your brain. Adams has posted some of the stories from the anthology online for you. Most awesome is one called "Resistance," by Tobias Buckell — it's about Pepper, one of the characters in his outerspace ninja vs. zombies novel Sly Mongoose. The other we're excited about is Jay "Escapement" Lake's story "The Future by Degrees," which is a swashbuckler about thermal superconductivity. Check them out, and buy the book! More »
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The New Weird, the awesome new anthology edited by io9 contributors Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, has its own MySpace Page. That means you can make friends with a whole literary movement, which focuses on urban settings and visceral, disturbing imagery borrowed from horror. The anthology follows the genesis of the New Weird school, starting with writers like Michael Moorcock and China Mieville, and covers the theory of New Weird writing. And then it moves us into the future of the sub-genre, with a shared writing exercise based on a piece by Paul DiFilippo. The book's MySpace site includes a free download and podcast of Jay Lake's bizarre story "Lizard of Ooze," plus music and images. [The New Weird on MySpace] More »
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