The Bodhisattva

I just put up my interview with Jeff Vandermeer over at Fantasybookspot.com, where we talked about zamillion things, like being lost in Ceasar’s city, how you can be in Ambergris, blogging…and oh yeah, his new kick-ass book, Shriek: an afterword.

If you’re still one of these ridiculous - self-torture practicing - people who haven’t read [...]

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Jeff Vandermeer and that Evil Monkey converse (before Evil Monkey - being the righteous chap that he is - leaves to go kick the shit out of Anne Rice and Michael Crichton) about Bakker’s response to Vandermeer’s previous article (both from Emerald City)
The evil monkey - living up to his moniker - bites the [...]

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- R. Scott Bakker reponds to Jeff Vandermeer’s (2 Bodhisattva favorites) Politics in Fantasy, in his own Politics in Fantasy Redux.
- Pocket books celebrates the 40th anniversary of Trek, and is doing it in John Picacio style. (via Chris Roberson).
- Jeff Vandermeer gives us a heads up on some 2007 slipcased goodness from [...]

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So I was checking out the notes from the geek show the other day, and Hal was talking about a preview of a poem he was privy to, the first in a series of long form verse, which will be released via hardbound copies and limited to 50 editions individually and later will be collected [...]

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I have been following various online discussions (via messageboard etc), and want to ask - Who is this author?
- 15 Hugo Nominations, 4 Hugo Wins.
- 13 Nebula Nominations, 2 Nebula Wins
- 8 World Fantasy Award Nominations, 1 Win
- 45 Locus Award Nominations, 11 Wins
Has garnered this acclaim for Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror works, for [...]

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A couple days ago, after going through the ordeal of reading the first chapter of the Hunters of Dune (see last blog entry), a FBS forum member helped restore balance in the universe by pointing to a post by Jonathan Strahan at Notes from the Coode Street, which informs us that a new M. [...]

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I’m assuming most people have read the first chapter available for August release of Dune 7: The Hunters of Dune, brought to us by the duo of Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert.

If you could animate the text to scroll up, one could imagine that this is not Dune 7 the continuation of legendary Science [...]

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The first step in Fantasybookspot.com’s redesign has taken place, a decison to add more versatility to our site, and indulge the growth of the site over the last year (as the late…pardon, I mean the great Christopher Wallace said, “went from ashy to classy”). The options and some of features won’t be [...]

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I just drew the two winners of the contest (detailed here), of copies of Jeff Vandermeer’s recently rereleased City of Saints and Madmen. Go check out if you won!
I want to thank all who participated in the contest and Mr. Vandermeer for making it happen. If you didn’t win, you need to go [...]

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That is indeed the question:

- Jeffrey Ford with some free online goodness, not to mention that his much anticipated second collection, Empire of Ice Cream is shipping. This was one of my most anticipated books of 2006. You can check out an info page that has the tale of contents and some early [...]

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Earlier today I posted my review of Daniel Abraham’s A Shadow in Summer, well just now I put the finishing touches on an interview I conducted with Mr. Abraham for Fantasybookspot.com. I also just announced a drawing that will award one winner a signed copy of A Shadow in Summer.

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Just put up my review of Daniel Abraham’s A Shadow in Summer, the first book in his The Long Price Quartet, released last week.

Tags: books, book reviews

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Over at Fantasybookspot.com, I just announced the winner to one of our March drawings, this one for an autographed set of R. Scott Bakker’s Prince of Nothing sequence (The Darkness that Comes Before, The Warrior Prophet, and The Thousandfold Thought).
Go see if you are the lucky winner, and the thanks to all who participated, [...]

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Just wanted to let people know that Wordpress was going through some apparent growing pains this week, thus the lack of content. This is partly as heads-up and partly a test post, thanks for bearing with me!

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Jeff Vandermeer’s classic (cult classic doesn’t say enough) City of Saints and Madmen is being rereleased, and to coincide with this event Fantasybookspot.com is sponsoring a drawing that will gift two lucky winners a copy simply for being alive and experiencing a fortuitous moment.

Echos from those returned from Ambergis:
‘This is fiction to stand alongside that [...]

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