Holiday Gift Guide!
The dreaded Holiday season, with its attendant joys and anxieties, seems to fall upon us earlier with each advancing year. Once again we hear the fretful murmurs that Science Fiction and Fantasy fans are notoriously difficult to buy presents for. Fear not, for the venerable John E. O. Stevens, Fred Kiesche and Jeff Patterson have compiled hefty lists of fiction, non-fiction, art, and other sundry morsels suitable as gifts (or wish list items). Behold treasures, from the sublime to obscure, fit to sate the desires of nerds, fans, and aficionados of the fantastic, as well as the more adventurous mundanes. Also: a remembrance of Doris Lessing, Fred gives his report from HonorCon, and the gentlemen chime in on the culture they have been consuming. As an extra holiday treat, not all the culture consumed is genre related!
Listen to this episode (57 minutes)
Show Notes
Parables of Science Fiction, edited by Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger
Spectrum 20: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner
Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell, by Brian May, Denis Pellerin and Pual Fleming
The Interpretation of Zines: A Pictorial History of Science Fiction Fanzines, by Luis Ortiz
Fables Encyclopedia, by Jess Nevins, Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham
The Art of Ian Miller, by Ian Miller
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, edited by Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall
Explorer (The Mystery Boxes 01), by Kazu Kibuishi
Sci-Fi 2014 Vintage Calendar, from Asgard Press
Syd Mead’s Sentury, by Syd Mead
The Sandman Omnibus Volume 1, by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Colleen Doran
The Art of John Harris, by John Harris
The Art of Richard Powers, by Jane Frank, Richard Grid Powers and Vincent Di Fate
Additional Show Notes:
What It Means to be a Writer, by Doris Lessing
On Reading Doris Lessing, by James Lasdun
Snow Monkeys! by Heather Angel
Love is the Law, by Nick Mamatas
A Pretty Mouth, by Molly Tanzer
The Science Fiction Book, by Franz Rottensteiner
Alternate Worlds, by James Gunn
Fantastic Science Fiction Art, 1926-1954, edited by Lester Del Rey
The Xeelee Omnibus, by Stephen Baxter
The London Stereoscopic Company
Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 2014 (PDF of Index)
