The internet(s) gives and gives and gives.
There are some great sci-fi/fantasy bloggers out there, fans who are devoting a lot of time and energy into supporting authors and their readers. Variety is the spice of life, as they say, and with the menagerie of unique and very different individuals out there contributing, it produces a whole that is better than its parts.
Last week, Suvudu featured the First 50 Pages of The Passage by Justin Cronin. Fictional Frontiers posted 15 Minutes of Fiction with Jason Hough. Matt Staggs posted news that author Joe Hill will be taking up a classic horror anthology, as well as a post about Nelly Bly, sci-fi inspired feminist pioneer! Eric Geller featured the newest Star Wars HoloNet Digest. And I interviewed Raymond E. Feist in support of his new companion bookhttp://sf-fantasy.suvudu.com/2013/11/new-release-interview-midkemia-by-raymond-e-feist.html, Midkemia: The Chronicles of Pug!
In other areas of the professional internet(s), Tor.com the power of humanity and BatKid, Pyr Books posted news about Ari Marmell, and Orbit Books posted the Goodreads Readers Choice Awards: SemiFinal Rounds!
Here are some of the blogging highlights I found outside of Suvudu week ending 11/16/13:
- Cover: Echopraxia by Peter Watts, posted by A Dribble of Ink
- Review: The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch, read by A Fantasy Reader
- Review: The Scarlet Tides by David Hair, read by Fantasy Book Critic
- Review: The Dark of Deep Below by Patrick Rothfuss & Nate Taylor, read by Fantasy Literature
- Interview: Stephen R. Donaldson, posted by Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
- Review: Inhuman by Kat Falls, read by Sci-Fi Chick
- Sad News: RIP Doris Lessing, posted by SF Signal
- Cover: The Way to Babylon by Paul Kearney, posted by Wertzone
Shawn Speakman is the author of The Dark Thorn, an urban/epic fantasy hybrid novel bestselling author Terry Brooks calls, "a fine tale by a talented writer."
He is also editor and contributor of Unfettered, a fantasy anthology featuring some of the best writers in the genre. When Shawn isn’t lying for a living, he runs The Signed Page and Grim Oak Press.