Monday, February 25, 2002

Arthurian theme update
We added a bunch of books and links to this theme. These Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature, while not recent, will surely captivate dedicated fans.

As a side note, now we show books in list by theme and year 30 at a time, so you'll hopefully won't have these very slow page loading times we had in the past.
4:14 AM (link)

Monday, February 18, 2002

A Timeline of the Future
Slashdot thread about this timeline (pdf) produced by Ian Pearson, a "futurist" at a division of British Telecom.
3:52 AM (link)

Friday, February 08, 2002

SciFan keeps growing bigger
Today we moved past 30,000 books and 3,000 series in our database. We're also above 1,500 links, with among other recent additions, several author interviews from Crescent Blues. Since the number of science fiction and fantasy authors that we don't yet have keeps decreasing, we can focus more and more on accuracy, comprehensiveness and additional information.

Authors are helping us adding biographies and pictures, see for instance Jeanne Cavelos, Phillip Ellis Jackson, Eileen Kernaghan or Stefan Rochfort. Thanks to them and all the other writers who kindly provided material. Also, our thanks to the readers who keep sending additions and corrections, keep 'em coming! Don't worry though if we don't answer immediatly, we often have, er, a little backlog.
5:20 AM (link)

Wednesday, February 06, 2002

His Dark Materials to be co-produced by New Line (via Metafilter)
Philip Pullman's trilogy film rights were sold to the producer of the Lord of the Rings movie.
6:36 AM (link)

Tuesday, February 05, 2002

Virtual Author, an article on pen names
"There are as many reasons for writing under a pen name as there are pen names. It's said that Anne Rice writes under the names A.N. Roquelaure and Anne Rampling to keep separate her different kinds of novels. Some go by a pen name to avoid scandal: the late George Selden, an author of children's books, is rumored to have written the wonderful gay coming-of-age novel The Story of Harold (1974)."

We try to keep track of books published under pen names, which we list as separate authors is our listings. This article explains what are the motivations that lead authors not to use their real name to publish some books.
4:27 AM (link)