Another Interview and Reviews at FBS
Posted by jaytomio on April 21, 2008
My last post mentioned Craig’s interview with Ekaterina Sedia (which basically forced me to take a trip to Amazon), but intent on forcing me to post more, Lawrence put up his interview with Alistair Rennie, a contributor in the new Weird Anthology edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer that included contributions from others like Jeffery Ford, Michael Moorcock, Mike Harrison, Thomas Ligotti, K.J. Bishop, and Brian Evenson. Here is a bit of it:
“Also, there is a difference I think between the instinctive emotional reaction of abhorrence and its intellectual translation into a powerful political or moral position like pacifism. I’m not so much interested in formulating distinct intellectual positions in fiction, or illustrating a particular moral dilemma, so much as creating emotional effects out of extreme situations (which are suggestive, perhaps, of intellectual positions without formally stating them).”
Read the full interview here.
A few new reviews at over at FBS including Brian Lindenmuth’s review of a book by one of my favorite writers, Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain. Val continues digging in the crates and reviews Frank Herbert’s The Dragon in the Sea. Val also takes a look at Mary Gentle’s Cartomancy. If you look at Chris Roberson’s blog you see posts that’s content make me sometimes feel like I’m reading my own blog (except I don’t post) just based on dude’s interests see to mirror my own in terms of novels and comics, Jeremy reviewed his Set the Seas on Fire.
What I am doing -
We kind of have some big announcements coming up and they are the type we wish we could announce now but we have some legal matters to handle first. Heliotrope will be out at the end of the month, and the issue after that is already set in stone (in terms of contributors) and sports a sweet line-up and a bit of change in format that will be explained by our aforementioned forthcoming announcement. The line-up for issue 5 will be announced after issue 4 goes live. Both Damon and I have been working on (and locked up) some exclusive content to bring to you that you should see pop up periodically over the next couple months and continue as regular elements at FBS. To say it out loud and thus put pressure on the people doing it - FBS will also be going through a redesign in the near future. As far as what I am reading right now, they include Daniel Abraham’s latest in his Long Price Quartet and Glen Cook’s The Dragon Never Sleeps. I just finished reading Paul S. Kemp’s Shadowbred and Shadowstorm and will have some thoughts on both of them soon.
In other words, more sweet stuff for FBS members and reading non-members coming soon! I want to say more but I have to play the Blackbolt role for now and just play the silent type.
