Posted in Authors on October 5th, 2006 No Comments »
Robert Anton Wilson is most famiously known as the co-author of The Illumaniti Trilogy, and for his work as a philosopher, futurologist, anarchist, and conspiracy theory researcher. Ron Hogan has suggested that Wilson’s 1981 novel Masks of the Illuminati may be “the greatest American novel published since 1980”. As Douglas Rushkoff, devoted Wilson fan [...]
Posted in Authors, Awards on October 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy literature has been growing at a steady pace for the last four decades and produced a number of notable writers that should be read and are worth looking at for the Science Fiction book collector. A brief list of just a few will indicate why.
Margaret Atwood
James Cameron
John Clute
Charles De Lint
Gordon [...]
Posted in Authors on September 17th, 2006 No Comments »
Writer and editor Charles L. Grant, born 1942, died yesterday, Sept. 15, 2006, shortly after returning home from a long hospital stay. Grant wrote over 100 books, mostly horror and fantasy, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, notably the “Oxrun Station” novels set in an imaginary Connecticut town. He won Nebula Awards [...]
