The Bodhisattva

Friend of the site Clare was nice enough to share her recent experiences at The Explorers Club. In her own words, she describe the events:
“The celebration was in honor of the release of the fifth book in Naomi Novik’s Temeraire historic fantasy series, Victory of Eagles, but also feted the 50th book to be [...]

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Brian has brought over to FBS (with the author’s - Curt Purcell - permission) an interesting article concerning genre and literary fiction with an emphasis on Horror.
Here is a bit of it:
<My claim is that genre fiction tends to be characterized by primary process, and literary fiction tends to be characterized by secondary process. [...]

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Brian Lindenmuth just put up a pretty sweet article over at Fantasybookspot.com.
He also talks to writer Roland Jefferson:
Black alienation borne out of economic poverty and centuries old racial victimization will be a different experience from alienation in white, asian or hispanic cultures. And yet there are similarities that a skilled writer needs to be able [...]

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Everybody else gets the perks, but at least they are with little doubt more responsible with them then I’d be. I would totally be trying to harlan Jewel Staite, who isn’t really my type honestly (too happy looking, innocent smile - I don’t trust these characteristics) * take her where she cannot stand, I [...]

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Well, I’m bending the truth. It’s not so much a preview, but a bit of a tongue-and-cheek piece I just put up a piece at Fantasybookspot.com where our contributors and myself put up the books we are most looking forward to this year . Some of you may not enjoy what I enjoy, [...]

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Tim Eldred the writer/artist behind the graphic novel Grease Monkey gives us the lowdown on his work and the journey seeing it through - essay style - at Fantasybookspot.com.\par
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Check out Graphic Novels: going the long way round at FBS!\par
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What seems to happen much too often in the SF/F online community is that some of our greatest sources of opinion get to wrapped up in showcasing how well they can skirt certain topics of discussion that crop up, so better to enable themselves to lick the collective balls of the people who constantly remind [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I noted Paul Jessup’s Lotus Lyceum, essentially a community blog to discuss fantasy topics worth discussing that has some drawn authors and some other recogniziable folks. I have been following some of the discussion there, and one of them is Wright’s Fantastic Fiction: To Label or Not To Label?.\par
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I have [...]

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I have learned (and at times chronicled what I have learned about reviewing) many aspects about doing review. A continuing and continual learning experience, here is one I suffered from before, and is I feel one of the most important:
#14 (a) If you want anyone to respect your reviews, don’t (and I believe Rob [...]

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Recently, author Tobias Buckell shared with the SF/F community a rough draft of his notes on a speech he recently gave concerning the origins and the depths of his love for Science Fiction. Reading the article made me think about Science Fiction, as an art, a genre, even just the term, not exactly in [...]

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