Christopher Barzak

Category: Books

  • 2009 Nebula Awards

    The Nebula Awards Nominees for this year have been announced, and to my excitement and surprise, my novel-in-stories, The Love We Share Without Knowing, has been nominated in the novel category!  I’m very honored to be named among these other authors and titles.  Now I will go squee in private. SFWA is proud to announce…

  • YA before YA was cool

    Last week the famous J.D. Salinger passed away, which lead to an internet riot of people either mourning–some respectfully, some deeply–or people taking pot shots at Salinger and his most famous character, Holden Caulfield. The funny thing is, most of the people commenting on the book really don’t know anything about how the book was…

  • Another recommendation

    Over the winter break I had a chance to read more books of my own choosing than I’ve been able to do in a while.  One of them was Ali Shaw’s debut novel, The Girl With Glass Feet.  This novel is a modern fairy tale, set in a faraway land, St. Hauda’s, an icy island…

  • The Antidote to Twilight Sickness

    The longed for antidote to Twilight-oriented vampire fiction. Ahh, that was refreshing.  Finally.  And of course, all thanks due to Holly Black, whose new collection of short fiction is soon to be released.  Quick, before you become a vampire, read it!

  • SF Signal Interview

    Completely forgot to post this link to an interview Charles Tan did with Delia Sherman and I about Interfictions 2, our editorial process, plans for subsequent volumes in the series, and a wide range of related topics about the international writing community, the internet and its effects on art making, and much more.  Check it…

  • Total Oblivion

    If you didn’t already know, Alan DeNiro’s first novel, Total Oblivion, More or Less, is now out, and you should be reading it, cause it is fantastic.  And while you’re at it, if you missed his short story collection, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead, from a few years back, you should take…

  • Reviews of the new Interfictions

    Two really well done reviews of the new volume of Interfictions are out. First one from Strange Horizons: If anyone else feels like we’re still drowning in slipstream—or, rather, drowning in definitions of slipstream—this follow-up to the 2007 anthology Interfictions certainly won’t offer any easy answers to the question of what’s been going on lately…

  • Amazon Top 10

    The second volume of Interfictions releases today, and just tonight I learned that the anthology has been selected by Amazon.com as one of the top 10 SFF books of 2009! You can see the whole list by clicking here. I can’t wait to hear what readers think of the selection of stories Delia and I…

  • Gettin’ Interstitial with the BBC

    As mentioned in a previous post, I did an interview with the lovely Jamillah Knowles of the BBC this past Sunday about the second volume of Interfictions, which I co-edited with Delia Sherman, and now it’s available as a podcast.   Here’s a link to it, but, just so you know, it’s a conglomeration of subjects…

  • Love it or hate it?

    The other night, pre-viral infection, I was in a bookstore and was stopped in my tracks by a book I’ve looked at too many times in too many similar covers:  Wuthering Heights.  It was face out and had a beautiful cover design, full of color, with a Tim Burton-esque rendering of Cathy on the front…