Jeff VanderMeer

I interviewed Stephen about his new book The Kingdom of Bones. It’s an excellent thriller, which I also reviewed for Realms of Fantasy. (He also has a blog.)

With the 85th anniversary of Weird Tales upcoming and a slew of editorial and format changes having been made to the magazine, I thought it would be interesting to guest blog on Ecstatic Days, especially since Jeff is in the process of meeting his many, many deadlines. Part of guest blogging will be to present the short […]

Ann’s first issue as fiction editor of Weird Tales should be out shortly, and so from now through the middle of January, in addition to a few of my own posts, I’m going to turn this blog over to Ann and WT fiction contributors. Ann will be posting short entries from her contributors, who constitute […]

Here’s the full press release. Contributors include: Daniel Abraham, Kage Baker, Stephen Baxter, Beth Bernobich, Eric Brown, Keith Brooke, Paul Di Filippo, Hal Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, Jay Lake, Margo Lanagan, James Lovegrove, Ian R. MacLeod, Michael Moorcock, James Morrow, Kim Newman, Robert Reed, Chris Roberson, Adam Roberts, Lucius Shepard, Brian Stableford, Jeff VanderMeer and Marly […]

Adam Roberts over at Strange Horizons likes it almost as much as I did.

Since this cool little book is now available, out just in time for the holiday season, I thought I’d post the press release for it. At under ten bucks, it makes a perfect little gift, and if you order now we’ll personalize it and add a little holiday card if you want it shipped directly […]

I’m just starting The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson, but I’m really impressed with this opening. I mean, this is a SF book I want to read from the get go: This new world weights a yatto-gam. But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me tiny or blurred-out-of-focus huge. There are leaves that have grown as big as […]

Okay, so you already saw it on Boing Boing, but if I’d been on the ball you’d have seen it here first.

What would today be without a Dreydl reference? Check out my Amazon interview with Ellen Kushner, author of The Golden Dreydl. Jeff

I was just listening to NPR as I ate lunch and they had on a guy who has written a book on migration, and how climate change and habitat loss have affected migratory animals. At one point, he describes how he went out at night with other volunteers to help some endangered salamanders cross a […]