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Peadar Ó Guilín is the author of The Bone World Trilogy, a dark science fiction saga set in a world where cannibalism is a way of life. The first book in the series, The Inferior was published last October to great acclaim, and the second volume, The Deserter, was released earlier this month. I recently [...]
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Mechanical Immortality and Machine So what would you do if you got a chance to live in a machine copy of your own body — one that looked and felt just like your flesh body — only you couldn’t make any adjustments to it, it would age just like your flesh body, and you’d have to go back to that meat sack after only a few years?
Adam Christopher is the author of Empire State (Angry Robot, 2012). He has been nominated for the British Science Fiction Association, British Fantasy Society, and Parsec awards. In 2010, as an editor, Adam won a Sir Julius Vogel award, New Zealand’s highest science fiction honor.
Thinking of the American mid-West conjures up images of cowboys and desperadoes, dusty plains and wild mountain ranges, Stetsons and sheriffs and shoot-outs. Usually, calling a story a ‘Western’ leads our imaginations back to the past: we visualise the O.K. Corral, the Alamo, and Billy the Kid. But call it a ‘Weird Western’ and this picture changes.
It’s the dawn of the 22nd century, and the world has fallen apart. Decades of war and resource depletion have toppled governments. The ecosystem has collapsed. A new dust bowl sweeps the American West. The United States has become a nation of migrants–starving masses of nomads roaming across wastelands and encamped outside government seed distribution warehouses.
The internet has been all abuzz recently with folks geeking out over George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series–or, more often, over HBO’s A Game of Thrones TV adaptation. Reading a lot of the reviews, it’s clear that the show’s reach has extended far beyond hardcore fantasy fans, and into a wider mainstream audience.
I get the question a lot: a space opera with the feel of Star Wars: A New Hope based on the Moses story? Why? Why adapt an oft-told tale? Why a biblical story? The answer is simple: 27 years ago I dreamed up a new way to tell the tale and make it fresh, and I just had to write it.
A young boy lives in a hostile home environment with uncaring step parents, but unbeknownst to himself, is actually a pivotal figure in a magical universe that’s waiting to reclaim him. Sound familiar? No, it’s not Harry Potter… rather it’s Daniel Hauer, the MacGuffin in the ensemble cast in Awakenings. That’s where the similarities end.
Writer, Air Force veteran and child psychiatrist Ilsa J. Bick is the author of Ashes, an epic novel of survival in a post-apocalyptic world. In this short essay, Bick considers what happens when society falls apart. Look for Ashes at your favorite bookstore on September 6, 2011.
Blowing up the world is fun, and everyone loves [...]
My novel, The Not Yet, is set in 2121. The U.S. has shrunken, become the United Authority. States along the Gulf Coast and the Pacific Rim have been cut away—-too many disasters, too hard to govern. The elite Heirs, who run the Authority for themselves, live hundreds of years on nearly foolproof life-extension programs. Their upkeep absorbs all the economy’s resources. The poor eek out a narrow, illegal existence, working as slaves or performers, or hang on in restricted tribes called Enclaves.
Archon
Any "power word" would be nice...