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SF Gateway Author of the Month: Redux
With last week being dominated by the terrible news about Iain Banks, we felt it only fair to give Author of the Month, Gordon R. Dickson, a second outing on the blog. So, please forgive the...
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SF Masterwork of the Week: Tau Zero
May’s first Masterwork of the Week is Poul Anderson‘s Hugo-shortlisted Tau Zero. The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thirty...
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Readers’ Choice Winner for June
With free SF Masterworks up for grabs, the tension couldn’t be higher. Four readers entered the arena, armed with their favourite Gateway book, but only one would leave the field of play alive. The...
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Happy Birthday, Greg Bear!
Multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Greg Bear turns 62 today. The author of such seminal Big Dumb Object novels as The Forge of God and Eon, bio-thriller Blood Music, claustrophobic space...
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SF Gateway Omnibus Schedule 2013
Following a deluge of requests** we have decided to publish the schedule of SF Gateway omnibuses up to the end of the year. So, without further ado . . . Available Now Frank Herbert – The Dragon in the...
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Readers Choice Winner for October
It’s probably redundant to point this out on a website devoted to classic science fiction, but the Readers’ Choice submissions for October were all very . . . classic. We had Fritz Leiber‘s Hugo...
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SF Gateway Omnibus of the Week: Poul Anderson
Well, they’re here to stay so you’d better get used to them – the SF Gateway omnibus programme is up and running, and will be almost two dozen volumes strong by the end of the month (we’d give you that...
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SF Gateway Author of the Month: Poul Anderson
As we move into the second month of 2014, it’s time for the Author of the Month spotlight to return and we begin proceedings with the SFWA Grand Master, winner of seven Hugo Awards and three Nebulas –...
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SF Gateway & Gollancz: the British Fantasy Award-Winners
Well, we certainly do seem to be getting through the awards calendar, don’t we? No sooner do we bid farewell to the Hugos for another year than the British Fantasy Awards begin to loom large in our...
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Fantasy Masterwork of the Week: The Broken Sword
So what book would prompt no less a figure than the legendary Michael Moorcock to say ‘It has a wonderful, wild, manic originality, a driving story and a genuine feel of the grim realities informing...
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Fantasy Masterworks: the List So Far . . .
As we approach the 2014 World Fantasy Convention, held this year in Washington D.C., we thought it might be a good time to bring you all up-to-date with the re-launched Fantasy Masterworks series. Et...
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On This Day: Poul Anderson
On 25th November, 1926, Poul William Anderson was born, and thus began a dynasty. Well . . . maybe not a dynasty, but his daughter is married to Greg Bear, so it’s at least potentially the start of...
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On This Day: Poul Anderson Died
On this day in the very science fictional year of 2001, Poul William Anderson died. A wonderful author, Anderson was equally at home with SF and Fantasy. Although much of his work falls unambiguously...
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Happy Birthday, Michael Dirda!
Today is the birthday of editor, author, critic, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and friend of the Gateway, Michael Dirda. In a literary establishment too often eager to denigrate genre fiction,...
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On This Day: Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson was born on this day in Bristol, Pennsylvania, in 1926. Born of Scandinavian parents, he lived in Denmark briefly before the outbreak of the Second World War. He was a SFWA Grand...
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Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: June 2016
‘Where Silverberg goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow’ Isaac Asimov Reflections is a regular column by multi-award-winning SFWA Grandmaster Robert Silverberg, in which...
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Gateway Essentials: Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson was born ninety years ago, today, in Bristol, Pennsylvania, so it seems an appropriate time to give his work the ‘Essentials treatment’ . . . Born of Scandinavian parents,...
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