Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventure Diary
The British Library is producing a facsimile copy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s diary from his days as a ship’s doctor in the arctic sea. The Sherlock Holmes creator spent most of a year on the whaler Hope, while still a medical student. It sounds like his time aboard involved lots of falling into icy…
The Best of Recent Fantasy Literature: the Mythopoeic and World Fantasy Awards
Want to find the best fantasy books that have been published recently? Two sets of awards can help you out. The finalists for the World Fantasy Awards were just announced, and the novel finalists are Jo Walton’s Among Others, Stephen King’s 11/22/63, George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons, and Lavie Tidhar’s Osama. Read the…
Lightspeed Presents . . . “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species,” by Ken Liu
io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” by Ken Liu. Enjoy! Photo by Chris Donia, of one of the mysterious book sculptures of Edinburgh. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-beautiful-literary-mystery-in-edinburgh-5865968 The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species…
First 40 pages of Richard Kadrey’s new Sandman Slim novel are a Hell of a good time
The great thing about Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim novels is, there’s no foot-dragging. Each book in the series pushes the story forward — usually with a punch in the gut. Case in point: the fourth Sandman Slim Book, Devil Said Bang, starts out with Stark in a very different position than the previous novels. (If…