Source: wired
INTERVIEW WITH VAMPIRE AUTHOR SETH GRAHAME-SMITH
To be more precise, Seth Grahame-Smith is not himself a vampire (to the best of my knowledge -I didn’t think to ask him that), but the best selling author of several mashups featuring zombies and vampires, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and his latest, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Although he’s rather busy with the release of his new novel just a few weeks ago, Seth made the time to answer a few questions.
I reviewed Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a month or so ago. The novel hit the shelves on March 2 and, as of this writing, was Number 4 on the New York Times Bestseller List for hardcover fiction and Number 91 overall on Amazon.
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Source: locusmag
GENRES OF SEQUELS AND SERIES
Of all original novels published each year, how many are sequels or books in series, and how many are independent, original, stand-alones? Take a guess before reading further.
For some time now I’ve been toying around with maintaining tallies of how many new books in our field are published each year that are in each subgenre (SF, fantasy, or horror), and more interestingly, how many are stand-alone singletons as opposed to those that are parts of series, or sequels to earlier books. As I compile the online “New Books” listings every week or so, I am numbed at times by how many books are Xth volumes in seemingly endless series. It seems as if the majority of original books in SF/F/H are sequels and series, not independent stand-alones. This seems especially true in fantasy… at least in ‘urban’ fantasy.
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Source: tor
IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING: WHY FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION MIGHT BE DISGUISED AS EACH OTHER
It used to be quite common for books that were fantasy, but not standard quest fantasy, to be published in the thinnest of SF disguises. Anne McCaffrey’s Pern began life in Analog. Telepathic teleporting time-travelling dragons are pretty fantastical, but it’s hinted all along that this is a lost colony and it’s all explained in Dragonsdawn. There are plenty of other examples, like Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover (which also has a prequel explanation of how things got weird, Darkover Landfall) and Andre Norton’s Witchworld. There’s magic, but we’ll call it psionics. It feels like fantasy, but there’s a veneer of a science fictional explanation.
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What are your thoughts on today’s book news?
