MentatJack

I like this feature on John Scalzi’s blog. He basically gives space for an author to tell us what makes their book particularly awesome. He’s working on expanding The Big Idea into a website of its own, but until then, I wanted to point at the Big Ideas that particularly interested me. I just ran a quick search on whatever and sifted through the results:

Authors I’ve reviewed

• Tobias Buckell on Sly Mongoose
• Cory Doctorowon Little Brother
• Jay Lake on his novel Green

– So far I’ve only read short fiction by Jay Lake, but I look forward to dipping into his novels. It’s particularly neat that he wrote numerous stories in same setting as Green.

• T. A. Pratt on Dead Reign
• Margaret Ronald on Spiral Hunt
• Scott Sigler on Infected
• Greg van Eekhout on Norse Code
• David J. Williams on Mirrored Heavens

Other Interesting Big Ideas

• John Joseph Adams on Federations

– an anthology of stories in the vein of Star Trek but by names famous outside of the media-tie-in world. This keeps trying to rearrange my to-read pile.

• Marie Brennan on Midnight Never Come
• Greg Egan on Incandescence
• C. C. Finlay on the Traitor to the Crown series
• Jim C Hines on The Stepsister Scheme
• Nancy Kress on Dogs
• Tom Levenson on Newton and the Counterfeiter
• Sarah Prineas on The Magic Theif: Lost
• Robert J. Sawyer on WWW: Wake
• Lewis Shiner on Black and White
• Catherynne Valente on Palimpsest

Turns out I have a lot of catching up to do reading Big Idea posts, but this should be a good jumping off point. Sifting through posts on Whatever, I also came across the Big Idea Guidelines, which is cool.

~ by mentatjack on June 12, 2009.

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