http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/nicola griffith http://io9.com/tag/nicola griffith When reprinting visions of the future (or the futuristic present) published in the 1990s, how do you update them? So much has changed, in technology as well as society. Ammonite author Nicola Griffith has some thoughts on this dilemma. More »
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If you believe in reading short fiction for pleasure, you're condemned to frequent disappointment. Most short fiction, even the good stuff, is... laborious. So when reading the anthology Eclipse Three, you may be startled at the unexpected sensation of enjoyment. 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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Some of our favorite science fiction authors appear to have left SF behind, after creating stories that live with us forever. We asked Nicola Griffith, Karen Joy Fowler, Samuel R. Delany and Mary Doria Russell why they left the genre. More »
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A new search engine promises to gather all "computational knowledge" and make you an instant expert on any topic. So why does it have the ominous Joss-Whedon-villain name Wolfram Alpha? More »
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Online books retailer Amazon.com erased untold numbers of books with mature or queer themes from its site, apparently in a drive to remove "adult" material. And some science-fiction authors were hit hard. More »
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The most irksome aspect of writing a science fiction story is often the research. Sometimes you have the perfect story, but it's based on junk science. Here's how Caitlin Kiernan and Nicola Griffith handled it. More »
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The Lambda Literary Awards' science fiction category sometimes comes in for derision (for example, for passing over Octavia Butler's awesome Fledgling in favor of a markedly inferior work a couple years ago.) But this year's Lambda winners, announced last night, do include some great SF writers in non-SF categories. Most notably, Ammonite and Slow River author Nicola Griffith won the memoir category for her gorgeously packaged And Now We Are Going To Have A Party. (Enlarge the image to see the cool box-set design.) And First Person Queer, co-edited by Lawrence Schimel, won the anthology category. The actual science fiction winner this year was a horror book, The Dust Of Wonderland by Lee Thomas. [SF Awards Watch] More »
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