Christopher Barzak

Month: March 2010

  • Gaslight Dogs

    Dear internet drifting jellyfish, Have you read any books by author Karin Lowachee?  Well, if not, now is your chance to start by picking up her newest novel, released just yesterday by Orbit Books.  It’s called Gaslight Dogs, and it sounds like a wonderful fantasy novel.  Here’s a description: At the edge of the known…

  • Reality Hunger

    I’m reading David Shields’ new book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto.  It’s a really engaging nonlinear, non narrative, at times lyrical essay, always structured by way of collage or mosaic, appropriating snippets of ideas from other writers, thinkers, poets, and philosophers and critics, arranging in a mash-up style, voices layered over one another without attribution (until…

  • Back on the range

    Home again from spending five days in Seattle, where I saw eagles nearly every day (a good omen or portent, I’m told), rode a ferry out to Vashon Island, where I spoke with really awesome, smart high school students about writing, Japan, and my second book, gave a reading at University Bookstore, where I met…

  • I Needs Must Part

    Reviewer and critic Richard Larson has posted an extremely insightful review of Richard Bowes’ Nebula nominated novelette, “I Needs Must Part, The Policeman Said,” on his blog. A sample: The idea of the speculative memoir is something of perpetual fascination for me, perhaps because I’ve always treated speculative fiction as a sort of digging below…

  • SF Mind Meld

    Over at SF Signal, the Mind Meld feature today incorporates responses from various Nebula nominees on the subject of other worthy candidates that were not nominated for the Nebula.  I participated in the response panel with this: There are so many good books and stories out there. Awards showcase only a select few. Some of…