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more about #audreyniffenegger more comments → ParryLost: "We ignored gender..." So, were they completely unaware of the gender of the writers of all the books they considered? Or are they gender-blind, like... more » anomaly_kid: Who frakkin' cares?! It shouldn't matter whether the author is male or female or black or white or yellow or green! What matters is that the books are... more » queensowntalia: There is just no way to post this sort of thing without sending everyone into a tizzy. Feelings run VERY strong on matters like "best of" lists. Which... more » goldfarb: "We wanted the list to reflect what we thought were the top 10 books of the year with no other consideration....We ignored gender and genre and who ha... more » naraoia: Should "best of" lists be determined by committee? Should every "best of" list have to include x number of books by a given gender, or n number of bo... more » tetracycloide: i submit that literary women's books and science-fiction novels are excluded from the mainstream "best of" lists for exactly the same reason. namely ... more » it must be bunnies: io9 is my book club. The last 20+ books that I have purchased have been based on recommendations from Grey Area and articles on this site. I can't h... more » Pessimippopotamus: I made my book club read Rendezvous with Rama. I think I've turned them off science fiction. But they did christen my wang Rama, sod I can't complain. more » WoodrowHaoiet: Hewing to the original question ("how does a science-fiction book become a "must read," talked-about book among science-fiction readers? (I.e., a book... more » David Alvaro: Charlie, This is an interesting question, and I think you have done a pretty good job covering a lot of the issues concerned here. But I think that a... more » transbastard: Why would you want to? To know you have arrived in the mainstream? To sell to these book clubs? I can see the economical point, but no other worth t... more » Bill-Lee: I've found "book club lit" is usually pretentious rubbish that people read in order to feel important, as if to say, "Aren't I sophisticated, I've rea... more » engtech: What killed the idea of book clubs for me was going to a DaVinci Code discussion and instead of having a good time making fun of the book I had to exp... more » Grey_Area: Charlie, I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I adore the pulp covers you choose for these rants. The words surrounding them are quite bril... more » Jenn2D2: Honestly, I've found the book reviews on io9 to be a great starting point for those things. A lot of science fiction fans of all stripes read the cont... more » -
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How Do You Get Science Fiction To Have "Book Club Lit"?
One of the frustrating things about science fiction is that everyone's seen the year's biggest movies: Even films like Transformers 2, which most people seemed to dislike. But how many books are there that everyone you know has read?
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#timetravelerswife
Time Traveler's Wife Leaps onto Television
On the heels of a successful opening weekend, ABC has announced its plans for television adaptation of The Time Traveler's Wife, with Friends creator Marta Kauffman. The time travel romance may span a lifetime, but can it span multiple seasons? More » -
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Can This Time-Traveling Marriage Be Saved From Its Own Banality?
The Time Traveler's Wife is a story about deja vu. Everything that happens has already happened, and will happen again, thanks to the story's endless time loops. So maybe that's why everything in the movie feels so tiresomely familiar. Spoilers... More » -
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Our First Look At The Time-Crossed Romance Of The Time Traveler's Wife
The trailer for the timeslip romance, The Time Traveler's Wife, is finally online, and it shows the attractiveness, and horribleness, of a lover who can't stay. (Plus a nifty "dematerialization" effect.) And click through to see the poster. More » -
#writing
From The Page To The Canvas: SF Writers Make Art
It used to be, everyone who wrote science fiction was a scientist, or full-time scribbler. But now, authors like Audrey Niffenegger, Rudy Rucker and Mary Robinette Kowal also make art. We talked art/SF with them. More » -
#audreyniffenegger
Really Great Speculative Fiction Is Worth Millions, Even In A Recession
Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife, won a staggering $5 million advance for her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry. And everyone seems to agree she earned it. More » -
