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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
09/03/09

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*adds to library reservations*
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Franklin Harris
08/20/09

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Anthologies like Eclipse and Fast Forward seem to be filing part of the void left by the decline of fiction magazines.
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Grey_Area
08/20/09

@Franklin Harris: I spoke to Jeremy Lassen of Night Shade Books and he is definitely trying for some of that. They recently became the publishing partner of Electric Velocipede to help keep venues for speculative fiction short stories alive in print.
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Charlie Jane Anders
08/20/09

@Franklin Harris: That's my perception too... but on the other hand, you still need short fiction magazines to nurture new talent and provide stories for anthologies to reprint.
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Grey_Area
08/20/09

@Charlie Jane Anders: Isn't Eclipse all unpublished stuff?
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Franklin Harris
08/20/09

@Charlie Jane Anders: Magazines are definitely better at nurturing new talent, but the anthologies we see now are increasingly publishing previously unpublished stories. I suspect one reason anthologies are supplanting mags is anthologies tend to offer more known talent for the reader's buck. But it could end up self-defeating is there's no place for new talent to become known.
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Grey_Area
08/20/09

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The first two volumes of Eclipse were truly great. What I really dig is that these are general Speculative Fiction, no themes. You ain't going to cotton to every single story, but I'll guarantee you'll find something you love that's not really "your type of story".

And kudos to Jeremy and Johnathan for getting that piece of vintage SF art by Richard Powers for the cover. Nice touch.
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MosesMonster
08/20/09

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And where might one find such gems? I'm going to blow a paycheck.
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Grey_Area
08/20/09

@MosesMonster: Eclipse 3 comes out in October, as does Last Drink Bird Head Here's a link to the first two Eclipses: [nightshadebooks.com]
...or go to Amazon.
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Geoffrey Sperl
06/10/09

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This is great post.

I think Russell hit it on the head: Who cares about labels? If a writer is a good writer then it should matter if they are producing SF or romance or cookbooks - it's going to be good if they know their craft.

I personally think William Gibson's best book post-Neuromancer is Pattern Recognition, and I have a hard time seeing that as SF. But it's a good book. Stephenson's Cryptonomicon isn't SF, but it's a good book.

If the author is good, then labels really shouldn't matter. Their interests, as Griffith said, will still be a part of them and it will still color their later work. As a result I'll read just about anything she (Griffith) writes and tend to enjoy it. The same goes for Stephenson or Richard Grant (if anyone recognizes him - and I don't mean the actor) and various others.
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NerD: Blattella
06/10/09

@Geoffrey Sperl: I LOVED Pattern Recognition.
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bronzeorchidsac
06/10/09

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Son of a bitch Charlie!

I seriously was going to finish an article for you guys tonight. Guess what it was about? Samuel R. Delany and Mary Doria Russell and why they should come back to us.

Granted, I had no interviews, just arguments.

Point being, I wanted to write it because I wanted to read it. This is why you are my favorite.

Speaking of favorites. I have had a hard on for Delany since I was 12 and yet I understand his leaving the genre. He left us with a lot to comb through and while being obvious science fiction, there was always something more going on. I won't rant, but I suggest that we all should read (or re-read) The Einsteinian Intersection.

Again, I love you Charlie.
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Charlie Jane Anders
06/10/09

@bronzeorchidsac: Oh yay! I'm glad you liked the post. And I'd be interested to see your arguments about why Delany and Russell should return to the genre...
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