That's the World Science Fiction Convention for all the non-SF/F-nerds out there.
The Rapid Fire Reading will feature 20 women each read 5 minutes from their latest novels or stories. It will be fast, fun, and fabulous!
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I'm really, really excited to be organizing the Broad Universe's Rapid Fire Reading 7-9 pm Friday, Aug. 21 at Sasquan in Spokane.
That's the World Science Fiction Convention for all the non-SF/F-nerds out there. The Rapid Fire Reading will feature 20 women each read 5 minutes from their latest novels or stories. It will be fast, fun, and fabulous!
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For me, the Hugo is an award that says a book is fabulous, shows me something new and different, blows my mind with magic, technology, setting, culture and/or concept and above all make it accessible, immediate and visceral. I need to be able to fall into the world, into the character without feeling hitches and jerks and I need to feel deeply connected to the characters and their plight.
Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Sword is my pick for first. Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor puts me in a quandary as to which book should be second place. I never thought I'd see this happen.
Kelly Link and other writers of the fantastic and familiar were recently featured in Wall Street Journal's book section. Don't get me wrong, Link is an incredible writer and editor. I just never thought she'd get "discovered" by mainstream readers. I always thought Link would be one of those writers and editors who would be critically acclaimed, win a bunch of awards, influence the genre, and no one outside the speculative fiction genre would know who she was. Here's the link, go read it. There's some good writers and books in that story I'll wait. I remember being blown away by Link's 2005 novella "Magic for Beginners," which is about a teen who watches a mysterious television program called "The Library," and knowing I would never see a telephone booth or a TV the same way again. What book would you hand someone to get them hooked on SF/F? It's a great question isn't it?
My answer and several other writers' answers is at Novelocity. I'm guesting at Novelocity, where almost a dozen fabulous speculative fiction writers ask questions of themselves every week. You'll find their answers to questions such as: What's your idea of a perfect SF convention? How do you handle rejection? or What's the best non-English speculative fiction book you have read? Tina Connolly asked for my perspective as a librarian on the question: What book would I hand someone to get them hooked on SF/F? My perspective as a librarian is different than my perspective would be for what I enjoy personally, what I might recommend to SF/F fans, and what I would suggest to writers. So I was very excited to add to the collective suggestions of Tina, Dale Evan Smith, E.C. Ambrose, Ken Liu, Lawrence M. Schoen, Beth Cato, and Steve Bein. Their suggestions include a couple of my favorite books. Go over to Novelocity What book would you hand someone to get them hooked on SF/F? and see if you can guess which is my favorite. I recommended -- err, crammed -- 18 titles into 265 words. Hopefully there's something for every taste, though I left some categories on the editing computer's hard drive. My first draft contained 44 books in 400 words. Tina very graciously suggested that I could cut that down. (I expect she would be a little shocked to see the emails, texts to self and chicken scratched post it notes that became the sizable pile of possibles that I culled into a first draft. If I have time, I'll post my DVD extras as it were here. (I'm in the middle of three projects at work and at home this month and next so I'm not going to have time until early August.) So why are you still here reading my ramble? Zip over to Novelocity and see the post. Still, here? OK. Why don't you try to guess which of the books recommended by the authors of Novelocity that I have read and of those, which are my all time personal favorites? And you could comment here or at my Facebook. or you could just go to Novelocity and find the answer to: What book would you hand someone to get them hooked on SF/F? pera link: http://www.novelocity.org/?p=718 |
Pulp & Pixels:
An occasional blog with thoughts on words, books, tech, and of course, libraries. Obligatory disclaimer:
Pulp & Pixels reflects my (Marta Murvosh) viewpoint and does not represents the library system that I work for, the publications I freelances for, or any of the professional associations that I belongs to or have a leadership role in. Of course, if I happen to say how much any of those organizations rock, I expects there would be agreement on those points. Find my reviews of teen books at BiblioCommons , Goodreads and for a 2011 YA library services class at Murvosh Reads.
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