m. c. de marco

Locus Online posts a brief obituary for Kage Baker, who died of cancer yesterday.

Via twitter: Kim Stanley Robinson has an article in New Scientist about Virginia Woolf, Olaf Stapledon, the Booker Prize, the current golden age of British science fiction, and stories of now. New Scientist also has eight flash stories up under the fiction of now, and a flash contest: 350 words or less, due October 15th.

Via twitter: Tobias Bucknell’s writing advice is to cut out cable.

What’s funny to me is that almost every. single. person. I tell that four hours TV watching a day statistic to says without fail “Yes, but I don’t watch that much tv.”

Via Jenny Williams on twitter: Shelfari has a virtual spread of Neil Gaiman’s bookshelves.

Naturally we’d assumed that someone whose work is filled with references ranging from literary to mythological would have a fairly extensive library but even so, we were a bit unprepared for the scope of what he sent us.

Post-tweet: I finished the unincorporated man by Dani and Eytan Kollin today. I heard about it through the reviews on Tor.com and io9.

I’ve been reading Aftershock & Others: 19 Oddities by F. Paul Wilson. I’m enjoying the short stories, especially “Offshore”, but the unique part of the anthology is the description of his career scattered between the stories, and especially his largely unsuccessful attempts to sell interactive fiction back in the 1990’s.

Via twitter: Jenny Williams’ three part interview with Alan Dean Foster covers writing, Star Trek tie-ins, and travel.