J.G. Ballard

J.G.Ballard rests in the arms of his muses.

Guardian best novels

The Guardian has a 1000 best novels feature running this week. Today it's the turn of science fiction. Unfortunately, you can only see it if you buy a copy of the paper. How 21st century. I could be going mad, but I couldn't find any Ursula Le Guin in there.

RIP Oliver Postgate

Oliver Postgate, creator of The Clangers, among other things has died.

Oliver Postgate's site BBC wiki

Nimby

The Mundane SF movement seems to have gone on hiatus, but not before quietly publishing all of the rejected stories for the Mundane edition of Interzone on the internet by accident. Including mine.

Not to be outdone, I've decided to publish my submission -Nimby-  completely free. Its a bit darker than the other stuff here.

Enjoy.

New Scientist - favourite sci-fi book and film

I renewed my New Scientist subscription and as a thank-you they are running a Sci-Fi special in November, just for me. Details here.

The are also running a couple of 'best sci-fi ever' surveys.

New Scientist Best Sci-Fi Novels   (my own list is here)

New Scientist Best Sci-Fi Movies

To add extra blog value, here are links to the one-page lists of comments which make interesting reading: novels and films.