Friday, August 21, 2009

Sci-Fi Lit Links


IO9 presents a Steampunk primer

The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction by Jonathan Lethem

Fresh Fiction tries to explain Why A Reader Attends a Science Fiction Fantasy Literary Convention

WSFS has announced the finalists for their annual small press award. Celebrate their genius now, because by this time next year, half of them will be writing Star Wars novels.

Tor.com proposes a "discussion of making decisions about reading priorities that draws on the facts of human maturation in ways shaped by scholarship as well as personal impression." Then they start one.