| Nonficawards for 2011 |
[Dec. 24th, 2010|11:32 am] |
Dear All
I have been pretty much absent this year, and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) ninebelow's post does draw attention to the need to reactivate this site.
If people have suggestions for books they've heard of that would be worth someone blogging, please post them here during 2011. I will take responsibility for either reading it or hassling someone to read it and to comment. |
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| BSFA Non-Fiction Award |
[Dec. 22nd, 2010|10:06 am] |
Some Waffle
Nominations for the BSFA Award have just opened so I thought I would start an open thread for potential nominees. This is particularly needed because so far this year this community has had just one recommendation:
Robin McKinley: Girl Reader, Woman Writer by Evelyn M. Perry
Other eligible books I can think of include:
Bearings by Gary Wolfe
Animal Alterity by Sherryl Vint
And it is not just whole books. Have there been any particularly notable papers in Foundation? Reviews in Interzone? Chapters from books such Narrative Power: Encounters, Celebrations, Struggles, edited by L. Timmel Duchamp? Suggestions in the comments please. I will edit the main body of this post as they come in.
The Rules
The Best Non-Fiction award is open to any written work about science fiction and/or fantasy which appeared in its current form in 2010. Whole collections comprised of work that has been published elsewhere previous to 2010 are ineligible.
Works published by the BSFA, or in association with the BSFA, are ineligible for a BSFA award.
A List
Notes From New Sodom by Hal Duncan
Narrative Power: Encounters, Celebrations, Struggles, edited by L. Timmel Duchamp
80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by Karen Joy Fowler and Debbi Notkin
The WisCon Chronicles: Volume 4, edited by Sylvia Kelso
Blogging The Hugos Decline by Paul Kincaid
Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives, edited by Graham J Murphy and Sherryl Vint
Review of With Both Feet in the Clouds by Abigail Nussbaum
From Utopia to Apocalypse by Peter Y Paik
Robin McKinley: Girl Reader, Woman Writer by Evelyn M. Perry
Review of Wheel Of Time by Adam Roberts
H.G. Wells: Another Kind Of Life by Michael Sherborne
Yesterday's Tomorrows by Graham Sleight
Defined By A Hollow by Darko Suvin
Animal Alterity by Sherryl Vint
Bearings by Gary K Wolfe
Evaporating Genres by Gary K Wolfe |
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| Is this blog dead? |
[Oct. 24th, 2010|04:19 pm] |
I hope not.
I've spent the past six months moving house so buying new books has been a non-starter. I would be really grateful if other people were posting because otherwise I'll have no idea what I need to catch up on. |
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| Locus recommended non-fiction |
[Feb. 2nd, 2010|08:14 pm] |
Non-Fiction / Art Books
* Powers: Secret Histories, John Berlyne (PS Publishing)
* The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Mark Bould & Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts & Sherryl Vint, eds. (Routledge)
* Canary Fever: Reviews, John Clute (Beccon Publications)
* Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary, Jane Frank (McFarland)
* Imagination/Space: Essays and Talks on Fiction, Feminism, Technology and Politics, Gwyneth Jones (Aqueduct Press)
* Starcombing, David Langford (Cosmos Books)
* Cheek by Jowl: Essays, Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct Press)
* The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction, Farah Mendlesohn (McFarland)
* On Joanna Russ, Farah Mendlesohn, ed. (Wesleyan University Press)
* Hope-in-the-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees, Michael Swanwick (Temporary Culture)
* This Is Me, Jack Vance!, Jack Vance (Subterranean Press) |
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| Updated Non-Fiction/Best Related LIst |
[Jan. 6th, 2010|03:37 pm] |
These are not suggestions as such, they are memory joggers for when you are trying to think of things for those awkward categories. More suggestions welcome. I'm happy to keep updating this until nominations close.
Clute, J. Canary Fever
Deepad: I Didn't Dream of Dragons: http://deepad.livejournal.com/29656.html?view=278744
Butler, Bould, Roberts, Vint., Routledge Companion to Science Fiction: Easterbrook, N. Alterity and Ethics, in The Routledge Companion.
Csisceray Ronay Jr., I. The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction.
Mendlesohn and James, A Short History of Fantasy
Mendlesohn: The Inter-Galactic Playground
Swanwick: HOPE-IN-THE-MIST: The Extraordinary Career & Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees
Okrent, A., In the Land of Invented languages
Vint, S (Ed). Extrapolation, Volume 50, no 2 Summer 2009: The China Mieville
Merrick, H.: The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms
Jones, G: Imagination/Space: Essays and Talks on Fiction, Feminism, Technology and Politics
Mendlesohn, On Joanna Russ
Duncan, H.: http://notesfromthegeekshow.blogspot.com/2008/08/notes-on-strange-fiction-seams.html
Henry, Liz, The Wiscon Chronicles
Peter Bramwell: Pagan Themes in Modern Children’s Fiction
Reid, R. (ed.) Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Robinson, KS, Introduction to The Very Best of Gene Wolfe
Ruddick, N., Fire in the Stone: Pre-Historic Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel |
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| Non Fiction Nominations for BSFA and Hugos |
[Jan. 6th, 2010|06:22 am] |
If people send me more things that are eligible, I'll repost the list. This is what's caught my attention this year (and at this stage, happy to have listed my own work, as these aren't recommendations as such)
Deepad: I Didn't Dream of Dragons: http://deepad.livejournal.com/29656.html?view=278744
Routledge Companion to Science Fiction: Butler, Bould, Roberts, Vint.
Neil Easterbrook, Alterity and Ethics, in The Routledge Companion.
Istvan Csisceray Ronay Jr. The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction.
James and Mendlesohn, A Short History of Fantasy
Mendlesohn: The Inter-Galactic Playground
Swanwick: Hope Mirlees
Okrent, In the Land of Invented languages
Vint, special issue of Extrapolation on China Mieville.
*Merrick: The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms
*Gwyneth Jones: Imagination/Space: Essays and Talks on Fiction, Feminism, Technology and Politics
Mendlesohn, On Joanna Russ
Hal Duncan: http://notesfromthegeekshow.blogspot.com/2008/08/notes-on-strange-fiction-seams.html
*Haven't read these, or seen reviews as yet. |
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| BSFA awards time |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|11:08 am] |
Don't forget your non-fiction.
awards@bsfa.co.uk |
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| Science Fiction Foundation Masterclass (please circulate/link to) |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|03:50 pm] |
Science Fiction Foundation announces SF Criticism Masterclass for 2010
Class Leaders:
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay
Roz Kaveney
Justina Robson
The Science Fiction Foundation (SFF) will be holding the third annual Masterclass in sf criticism in 2010.
Dates: 11th June to 13th June 2010
Location: Middlesex University, London (the Hendon Campus, nearest underground, Hendon).
Delegate costs will be £180 per person, excluding accommodation.
Accommodation: students are asked to find their own accommodation, but help is available from the administrator (farah.sf@gmail.com)
Applicants should write to Farah Mendlesohn at farah.sf@gmail.com. Applicants will be asked to provide a CV and writing sample; these will be assessed by an Applications Committee consisting of Farah Mendlesohn, Paul Kincaid, Adam Roberts.
Completed applications must be received by 28th February 2010.
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The Science Fiction Foundation (Registered Charity No. 1041052) was founded in 1970 by the writer/social activist George Hay and others as a semi-autonomous association of writers, academics, critics and others with an active interest in science fiction, with Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula K. Le Guin as patrons. Our aim is to promote science fiction and bring together those who read, write, study, teach, research or archive science fiction in Britain and the rest of the world. We also want to support science fiction, at conventions, at conferences and at other events which bring those interested in science fiction together.
Our main activities include publication of the journal Foundation: the international review of science fiction, and supporting the research library The Science Fiction Foundation Collection at the University of Liverpool. We have recently run successful conferences such as A Commonwealth of Science Fiction and the 2002 SFRA Conference, and published critical works on Ken MacLeod, Terry Pratchett and Babylon 5.
The four main objectives of the SFF are: to provide research facilities for anyone wishing to study science fiction; to investigate and promote the usefulness of science fiction in education; to disseminate information about science fiction; and to promote a discriminating understanding of the nature of science fiction.
Further information at: http://www.sf-foundation.org/index.html |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 16th, 2009|08:31 am] |
A not terribly sympathetic review of Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction, edited by Mark Bould and China Mieville by Michael Froggatt at Strange Horizons.
I'm part way through this book, hoping to finish it next week. I think I'm more in sympathy with the contents than Frogget but I do agree with some of his points. One day I will figure out why it is the Left, which believes in access to education, which prefers to write in the most inaccessible prose possible. |
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