Top 10 time travel books
Source: litlists.blogspot.com
Charles Yu’s debut novel is How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award for his story collection Third Class Superhero, and he has also received the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award. His work has been published in the Harvard Review, The Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, and Mid-American Review, among other journals.
He named his top ten time travel books for the Guardian. One novel on the list:
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
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The Great Steampunk Timeline
Source: tor.com
Here’s how you understand steampunk, how you really understand steampunk.
It’s a reaction, and like all reactions, for its boiler to begin burning, steampunk needed something to react against.
Let’s skip back to the 1960s and 1970s. There was peace, and love. Everything was groovy, baby. Where there was war, it could be protested; where there were bayonets on campus, flowers could be hung from that sharp steel. Even if you weren’t there, kids, you kind of were–it was Mad Men, it was Swingtown, it was Life on Mars, and it was Forrest Gump, baby.
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Chat Reminder: R.A Salvatore
Source: sf-fantasy.suvudu.com
Bestselling author R. A. Salvatore will be conducting an online chat in two days with his fans on October 22, 2010 at 7:00pm EST in support of his new book Gauntlgrym!
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Beautiful Wallflower: Why The Book of the Living Dead Anthology is Like a Nerdy Jessica Alba
Source: bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com
Books are a lot like people. Sometimes the most popular ones—the charmers, the egomaniacs, the ones wearing sunglasses inside a club—turn out to be nauseatingly superficial and lacking any substance whatsoever while the unassuming ones who may be perceived as introverted wallflowers turn out to be engaging, thoughtful and endlessly intriguing individuals who turn out to be lasting—and life-changing—friends.
With that in mind, the new anthology edited by John Richard Stephens, entitled The Book of the Living Dead, was like a stunningly beautiful woman who has no idea of the head-turning, jaw-dropping affect her mere existence has on the world around her. It’s a beautiful wallflower of an anthology—like Jessica Alba wearing nerd glasses, rainbow suspenders and flood-water pants.
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The steampunk time line is really interesting. Steampunk is one of tose genres that has always fascnated me, and one that captures my attention and imagination when I see it adapted in movies or read a short story in that genre, but I’ve never really emersed myself in it.
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