Olivia Munn Battles the Green Robots
Television personality and newly minted Daily Show correspondent Oliva Munn’s new book, Suck It, Wonder Woman! is full of practical advice for the modern dork. Like how to survive a robot uprising. (Hint: Robots hate kittens.) Sometimes I like to joke about the fact that pretty soon the planet Earth will be invaded by a…
Launch Pad Workshop report: Five best discoveries in astronomy over the past 20 years
Cecilia Tan just completed Launch Pad, a science fiction writers workshop where authors take seminars with astronomers and astrophysicists to improve the science in their fiction. This is the first of two reports from the workshop. Space exploration was one of the Big Ideas that drove the progenitors of the science fiction genre. In more…
Isaac Asimov’s The Gods Themselves: In which scientists are jerks and aliens masturbate
At long last we come to perhaps the biggest name in science-fiction literature. Settle in for a long, long — long — look at what might be the least Asimovian story Isaac Asimov ever wrote. This weekend we’re doing something different: Instead of just me droning on all by myself, io9 contributor and Asimov aficionado…
How much should you compromise your vision to get published?
Your writing reflects your unique — and sometimes messy — vision of the world. But how much should you compromise or censor yourself to get published? Urban fantasy author Stacia Kane delves into tricky questions of art and commerce. A few weeks ago over on the Romance Divas forum a discussion was started about honesty…
Publishing eBooks: Kindle, iPad, Nook, Kobo?
There are many mediums for ebook publishing today. But how does a publisher or author choose which one to use? Or does he or she even have to choose at all? Now that the iPad has captured 22% of the eBook market in it’s first 60 days, authors are clamoring to get their books into…