Friday Links VIII
The Internet expands, as relentless as that unfortunate case of foot rot I picked up in the jungle. You’ve got no prayer of reading ALL of it, so if you look at only half-a-dozen pages today, might I recommend these?
- Big science fiction news: much rejoicing after the announcement of this year’s Nebula Award nominees! Very happy to see Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl on the list, as well as Priest’s Boneshaker (my review will arrive later this afternoon). Finch is in my To Be Read pile, hopefully in March.
- Joe Abercrombie interviews Chris McGrath, the artist responsible for the cover art on recent editions of the First Law trilogy. The artist speaks from an interesting perspective on the decisions artists have to make when trying to capture the spirit of the book while also creating a marketable product. Joe also briefly blogs about listening in on the audio-book recording sessions.
- The Clockwork Century is the setting for Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker, as well as the freely available Tanglefoot. Two additional novels in this world are arriving later this year, including a limited edition release of Clementine. Get your copy before supplies are gone!
- A Dribble of Ink, one of my favorite blogs, recently interviewed N.K. Jemisin, author of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. Amazon has not yet shipped my copy, but this interview makes me even more anxious to get my hands on a copy!
- Just a few cool pictures from Popular Science.
- Updates on several anticipated fantasy releases: Brandon Sanderson talks Towers of Midnight, Mrs. Tad Williams on the latest novel in the Shadowmarch series, Shadowheart, and Scott Lynch’s Republic of Thieves will be arriving in 2011, quite the long wait (the second book in The Gentleman Bastard Sequence came out in 2007). Lastly, Patrick Rothfuss and his spawn would like to demonstrate the progress made on The Wise Man’s Fear.
- Only vaguely fantasy/sci-fi related, but I saw this video and thought it was pretty neat: