Orbit Links for June 13 2008
Here’s another quick round-up of links of interest featuring Orbit authors that we’ve spotted (or have been pointed in the direction of) online this week:
- Fantasy Book Critic interviews Jacqueline Carey (we’ll be publishing our first book from her this August).
- Russell Kirkpatrick dispels a glamour-myth or two in a blog piece entitled ‘What’s it Like to be a Writer?’
- Elizabeth de Jager, guest-posting at The Book Swede’s blog, was very impressed by Stephenie Meyer‘s new novel, The Host.
- Karen Miller will be attending Denvention, this year’s Worldcon, and will be appearing on no fewer than three panels, to boot.
- Philip Palmer ponders the future of batteries and concludes that he’s “essentially an optimist about the possibilities of scientific progress”, even if the universe he describes in Debatable Space is far from utopian…
- Brian Ruckley has been musing the possibilities of product placement in fantasy fiction (I do believe he might be serious… we’d best alert his editor).
- More how-to writing advice from Lilith Saintcrow; this week it’s a selection of ‘Quick and Dirty Ways to Write Better’.
- Jeff Somers spotted a copy of The Digital Plague on the Hachette USA stand at BEA this week (Hachette Book Group is Orbit’s parent company in the US).
- Charles Stross debunks the Singularity, or at least, some of the myths that have grown up around the concept as widely portrayed in science fiction.
- Scott Westerfeld has posted a clip from his recent TV news appearance.
- Sean Williams is delighted to announce that he’s had a novella accepted for inclusion in a Jonathan Strahan-edited anthology entitled Godlike Machines.
If you see any online articles, reviews or interviews that feature an Orbit author, please feel free to drop us a line and let us know!
