Archive for the 'Editorials' Category
A View From Corona #20 — John Berkey, a Remembrance
May 5th 2008 at 5:45 pm
“The solitary, steep hill called Corona Heights was black as pitch and very silent, like the heart of the unknown. It looked steadily downward and northeast away at the nervous, bright lights of Downtown San Francisco as if it were a great predatory beast of night surveying its territory in patient search of prey.”
- Fritz […]
2008 Publication Schedule
April 17th 2008 at 6:33 pm
Now that our 2008 publication schedule is pretty much set, here it is broken down by month:
January
Adams, John Joseph - Wastelands (trade paperback original)
Williams, Liz - Snake Agent (mass market reprint)
February
Williams, Liz - The Demon and the City (mass market reprint)
Bacigalupi, Paolo - Pump Six and Other Stories (hardcover original)
Cook, Glen - The Dragon Never […]
A View From Corona #19: Breakfast for Barry
March 24th 2008 at 3:17 pm
In 1982 Barry Malzberg’s stunningly, bitterly insightful autobiographical and critical collection of essays, Engines of the Night was published. It was nominated for (but did not win) the Hugo Award. Engines of the Night was controversial… too bitter… too uncomfortable… too true…. Last year Baen Books repackaged Engines… along with almost 30 new pieces written subsequent to Engines…. This new book, Breakfast in the Ruins, is awe-inspiring. Barry’s bitterness may have mellowed some with time, but his deep and abiding love for a field (whose shortcomings inspired that bitterness) has not. This affection comes shining through, in every word… every detail… every anecdote… every fond (and furious) memory… every pointed and dead-on criticism….
Interview: Andy Duncan on "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse"
March 12th 2008 at 2:21 pm
Andy Duncan, whose story “Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse” from Eclipse One is a finalist for this year’s Nebula Award, said in an interview that the story was inspired, in part, by one of his favorite fiction writers, who had a brief celebrity as a child when she taught a pet chicken to walk backward. […]
Paolo Bacigalupi: Science Fiction’s New Prophet
March 10th 2008 at 8:35 am
Paul Goat Allen recently interviewed Pump Six author Paolo Bacigalupi for Publishers Weekly. The original interview was edited down, but PW graciously allowed us to publish the entire unedited version here.
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Science Fiction’s New Prophet: An interview with Paolo Bacigalupi by Paul Goat Allen
Where many writers steer clear of weighty issues […]
Nominate Night Shade Titles for Prestigious Awards
February 12th 2008 at 6:39 pm
The 2008 Hugo Awards nomination ballot is now online. You must be an attending or supporting member of this year’s Worldcon, or have been an attending or supporting member of last year’s, to nominate. Deadline for voting is March 1.
The 38th annual Locus Awards ballot is also online. Voting is open to all. Deadline […]
A View From Corona #18
April 10th 2006 at 4:23 pm
Dan Simmons has an interesting “story” up on his web site. It uses a lot of imagery from the Internet Time-Traveller myth of John Titor, and overtly refers to Ken Grimwood’s Replay.
A View From Corona #17
July 11th 2005 at 4:20 pm
So I was working in the bookstore yesterday, and a customer comes in to return a copy of a book he bought 3 days ago… the recently published Hippocampus Press collection, The House of Sounds and Others by M. P. Sheil. No big deal, the customer indicated that he already had most of these stories in the Sheil’s Arkham House collection, and that he wanted to exchange it. I assented to this request, and the customer began looking for a different book.
A View From Corona #16
April 1st 2004 at 1:14 pm
Previously only hinted at (by a foul mouthed Jason Williams, in an interview in Flesh and Blood), the true scope and scale of Night Shade’s ambitions are just now coming to light. Clandestine operatives of Bertelsmann, and The Holtzbrinck Group, and well as Perason’s Group, Viacom, and News Corporation have all managed to infiltrate the inner circle of the Night Shade Cabal… They have discovered Night Shade’s plans for literary and media domination in the 21st century. They have begun leaking this information to the public and are currently formulating their responses to the threat represented by Night Shade Media & Entertainment Ltd.
A View From Corona #15
March 1st 2004 at 1:05 pm
Okay… For this Installment of A View From Corona I will present a get rich quick scheme for everyone still smarting from the stock market scandals and the “dot-bomb” debacle. Where can the middle class safely invest its money and get a reasonable rate of return?
