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Year's Best SF 10
''Year's Best SF 10'' is a science fiction anthology edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer that was published in 2005. It is the tenth in the Year's Best SF series. Contents The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a short introduction by the editors. *Bradley Denton: "Sergeant Chip" (Originally in ''F&SF'', 2004) *Gregory Benford: "First Commandment" (Originally in ''Sci Fiction'', 2004) * Glenn Grant: "Burning Day" (Originally in '' Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic'', 2004) *Terry Bisson: "Scout's Honor" (Originally in ''Sci Fiction'', 2004) *Pamela Sargent: "Venus Flowers at Night" (Originally in ''Microcosms'', 2004) *Gene Wolfe: "Pulp Cover" (Originally in ''Asimov's'', 2004) *Ken Liu: "The Algorithms for Love" (Originally in ''Strange Horizons'', 2004) *Ray Vukcevich: "Glinky" (Originally in ''F&SF'', 2004) *Janeen Webb: "Red City" (Originally in '' Synergy SF: New Science Fiction'', 2004) *Jack McDevitt: "Act of God" (Originally in ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asimov's Science Fiction
''Asimov's Science Fiction'' is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy named after science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It is currently published by Penny Publications. From January 2017, the publication frequency is bimonthly (six issues per year). Circulation in 2012 was 22,593, as reported in the annual ''Locus Magazine survey. History ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' began life as the digest-sized ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' (or ''IASFM'' for short) in 1977. Joel Davis of Davis Publications approached Asimov to lend his name to a new science fiction magazine, after the fashion of ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' or ''Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine''. Asimov refused to act as editor, but served instead as editorial director, writing editorials and replying to reader mail until his death in 1992. At Asimov's request George Scithers, the first editor, negotiated an acquisitions contract with the Science Fiction Writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interzone (magazine)
''Interzone'' is a British fantasy and science fiction magazine. Published since 1982, ''Interzone'' is the eighth-longest-running English language science fiction magazine in history, and the longest-running British science fiction (SF) magazine. Stories published in ''Interzone'' have been finalists for the Hugo Awards and have won a Nebula Award and numerous British Science Fiction Awards. History ''Interzone'' was initially produced by an unpaid collective of eight peopleJohn Clute, Alan Dorey, Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Graham James, Roz Kaveney, Simon Ounsley and David Pringle. According to Dorey, the group had been fans of the science fiction magazine ''New Worlds'' and wanted to create a "''New Worlds'' for the 1980s, something that would publish only great fiction and be a proper outlet for new writers." While the magazine started as an editorial collective, soon editor David Pringle was the driving force behind ''Interzone''. In 1984 ''Interzone'' received a ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Williams
Liz Williams (born 1965) is a British science fiction writer, historian and occultist. ''The Ghost Sister,'' her first novel, was published in 2001. Both this novel and her next, ''Empire of Bones'' (2002) were nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. She is also the author of the Inspector Chen series, and of the historical survey of magic in the British Isles and beyond ''Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism'' (2020). Williams is the daughter of a stage magician and a Gothic novelist. She holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science from Cambridge (for which her supervisor was Peter Lipton). She has had short stories published in ''Asimov's'', ''Interzone'', '' The Third Alternative ''and '' Visionary Tongue''. From the mid-nineties until 2000, she lived and worked in Kazakhstan. Her experiences there are reflected in her 2003 novel ''Nine Layers of Sky''. This novel brings into the modern era the Bogatyr Ilya Muromets and Manas the hero of the Epic of Manas. Her novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Stoddard (author)
James Stoddard is an American fantasy author. He lives in West Texas, United States, where he is also a music recording and engineering instructor. Stoddard's first published short story, ''The Perfect Day'', was penned under the name James Turpin and appeared in ''Amazing Stories'' in 1985. Stoddard won the 1999 Compton Crook Award for his novel ''The High House''. The book was also nominated for the 1999 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, placed in the top ten of the Locus Best First Novels of 1999, and was nominated for the Crawford Award by the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts. In 2018 he was one of five judges of the prestigious Philip K. Dick awards. Novels #''The High House'' (1998) (Compton Crook Award winner) #''The False House'' (2000) #''The Night Land, A Story Retold'' (2011) #''Evenmere'' (2015) (Book 3 in the award-winning Evenmere series) #''The Back of the Beyond'' (2020) (Book 1 of The Animonean Chronicles) #''Liberty Bell and the Last American'' (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conan Doyle In Toulouse
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Jean-Claude Dunyach
Jean-Claude Dunyach (born 1957) is a French science fiction writer. Overview Dunyach has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and supercomputing from Paul Sabatier University. He works for Airbus in Toulouse in southwestern France. Dunyach has been writing science fiction since the beginning of the 1980s and has already published nine novels and ten collections of short stories, garnering the French Science-Fiction award in 1983 and the Prix Rosny-Aîné Awards in 1992, as well as the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire and the Prix Ozone in 1997. His short story ''Déchiffrer la Trame'' (Unravelling the Thread) won both the Prix de l’Imaginaire and the Rosny Award in 1998, and was voted ''Best Story of the Year'' by the readers of the magazine '' Interzone''. His novel, ''Etoiles Mourantes'' (Dying Stars), written in collaboration with the French author Ayerdhal, won the prestigious Eiffel Tower Award in 1999 as well as the Prix Ozone. Dunyach's works have been translated into English, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Hughes (writer)
Matthew Hughes (born 1949) is a Canadian author who writes science fiction under the name Matthew Hughes, crime fiction as Matt Hughes and media tie-ins as Hugh Matthews. Prior to his work in fiction, he was a freelance speechwriter. Hughes has written over twenty novels and he is also a prolific author of short fiction whose work has appeared in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', ''Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine'', '' Lightspeed'', ''Postscripts'', '' Interzone'' and original anthologies edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. In 2020 he was inducted into the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association Hall of Fame. Biography Matthew Hughes was born in Liverpool in May 1949. His family moved to Canada when he was five. As a teenager, he was a member of the Company of Young Canadians and worked a variety of jobs before becoming a journalist. He then moved into speechwriting, first on the staff of the Minister of Justice and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Reed (author)
Robert David Reed (born October 9, 1956 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction author. He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the Nebraska Wesleyan University. Reed is an "extraordinarily prolific" genre short-fiction writer with "Alone" being his 200th professional sale. His work regularly appears in '' Asimov's'', ''Fantasy & Science Fiction'', and ''Sci Fiction''. He has also published eleven novels. , Reed lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and daughter. Awards * "Mudpuppies" (1986) (First Writers of the Future Grand Prize winner) * ''la Voie terrestre'' (1994), the French translation of ''Down the Bright Way'' (1991) ( Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for foreign novel) * "Decency" (1996) (''Asimov's Science Fiction'' reader poll, short story) * "Marrow" (1997) (''Science Fiction Age'' reader poll, novella) * "She Sees My Monsters Now" (2002) (''Asimov's Science Fiction'' reader poll, short story) * "A Billion Eves" (2006): Hugo Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt (born April 14, 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology. Most of his books follow either superluminal pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins or galactic relic hunters Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath. McDevitt has received numerous nominations for Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell awards. '' Seeker'' won the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novel. McDevitt's first published story was "The Emerson Effect" in ''The Twilight Zone Magazine'' in 1981. Biography McDevitt went to La Salle University, where a short story of his won the annual ''Freshman Short Story Contest'' and was published in the school's literary magazine, ''Four Quarters''. As McDevitt explained in an interview: McDevitt received a master's degree in literature from Wesleyan University in 1971. He returned to writing when his wife, Maureen, encouraged him to try his hand at it in 1980. , McDe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Science Fiction
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Janeen Webb
Janeen Webb (''née'' Pemberton) is an Australian writer, critic and editor, working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Biography The daughter of a Second World War Australian Army commando and salesman, Webb was brought up in the Newcastle suburb of Charlestown and was educated at local schools. She then studied at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales where she gained a Ph.D. in literature in 1983. For many years, she taught at the Institute of Catholic Education (later part of the Australian Catholic University) in Melbourne, Victoria where she was Associate Professor and Reader in literature. From 1987 to 1991, Webb was a member of the editorial collective of ''Australian Science Fiction Review: Second Series'', and is currently on the advisory board of ''Science Fiction Studies''. She is perhaps best known for her co-editorship, with her second husband, Jack Dann, of a major anthology of Australian science fiction and fantasy, ''Dreaming Down-Under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |