<![CDATA[io9: Kathleen Ann Goonan]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: Kathleen Ann Goonan]]> http://io9.com/tag/kathleen ann goonan http://io9.com/tag/kathleen ann goonan <![CDATA[What are the best SF novels published by women in the past 10 years?]]> Can you name the 10 greatest science fiction novels by women authors published in the past decade? That's a meme that's been making the rounds, in response to a perceived increase in the marginalization of women in SF. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5666329&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Elvis Has Left the Planet]]> Hip-shaking, pill-popping rocker Elvis Presley officially died in 1977, but he keeps popping up, at least in science fiction. Think Elvis lives? We list scifi’s explanations for what really became of the King. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5142601&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[All Locus Awards Voters Are Not Created Equal]]> Remember how we called the Locus Awards "possibly the most democratic" of the science fiction awards? Well, uh, never mind. The Locus Awards changed their rules after everyone had already voted, making Locus Magazine subscriber votes count twice as much as other votes, to deny Cory Doctorow the win for best short-story collection after his huge online following all voted for him. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023935&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[io9 Talks to Kathleen Ann Goonan About Nanopunk and Jazz]]> Science fiction author Kathleen Ann Goonan was writing about nanotech before most people even know it existed. Her Nanotech Quartet, including her celebrated first novel Queen City Jazz, is about a future United States where nanotech has gone wild and turned cities into living entities — and reprogrammed people to reenact scenarios from US history and literature. One of Goonan's favorite US art forms is jazz, and she often structures her novels like jazz songs. Along with Linda Nagata, author of The Bohr Maker, Goonan pioneered the literary nanopunk movement, a surreal subgenre of cyberpunk that's as much about art and psychology as it is about tech. You can find traces of nanopunk in everything from Jeff Noon's Vurt to Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Recently we had a chance to talk to Goonan about the difference between what she calls "strong" and "weak" nanotech futures. More »
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