Thursday, March 21, 2002

R. A. Lafferty died on March 18
"Raphael Aloysius Lafferty passed Monday, March 18th, after an extended illness. [...] Lafferty's work won many awards including the Phoenix Award, the Hugo (1972 for "Eurema's Dam,") World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Arell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award."
2:02 AM (link)

Monday, March 11, 2002

Greg Egan and Stephen Baxter: SF's New Hard Men
"Up until the 1990's, "hard", technologically accurate science fiction was in decline. These two writers reversed the trend. This article summarizes who they are, what they've written and how they fit into the SF genre."
11:08 AM (link)

Massive work on themes underway
We're currently reorganizing all our themes and categorizing a massive amount of books. Our goal is to add at least one relevant theme for most books in the database. Some themes such as Vampires or Time Travel are already well filled. We know there are still huge holes in other categories we just created (e.g. Magic vs. Technology or Elves), we're working on filling in the gaps.
1:25 AM (link)