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[BOOK REVIEW] The Red Sun Also Rises by Mark Hodder

Genre: Sword and Planet, Steampunk Paperback: 375 pages Publisher: Pyr Publication Date: December 4, 2012 ISBN-10: 161614694X ISBN-13: 978-1616146948 Author Website: Mark Hodder Though the title indicates an allusion to Heminway’s masterwork The Sun Also Rise Mark Hodder’s foray into sword and planet storytelling lacks little in common with that novel – except for a similar sense of disillusionment in its …

[SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author-Editor Lavie Tidhar and Apex World Book of SF 2 Authors

One of the more ambitious and important anthology projects of the last several years is Apex Book Company’s World SF series, edited by Lavie Tidhar, which collects the best speculative fiction from non-Western writers around the world. With the release of the second volume, Apex Book Of World SF 2, we sat down for a …

Space Opera Has Lost Its Luster – Redux

Last week Fabio Fernandes took an old essay of mine and used it as a jump point to ask myself and authors like Ken MacLeod, Michael Flynn, Jay Lake, Paul Jessup why we think space opera hasn’t gone more mainstream. Read all the fascinating answers at SF Signal.

[SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author Gail Carriger

New York Times Bestselling author Gail Carriger writes to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. Escaping small town life, acquiring degrees in Higher Learning, she traveled historic European cities subsisting entirely on biscuits from her handbag. She resides in the Colonies, surrounded by fantastic shoes, where she …

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