Charles Sheffield Dies at 67; Physicist, Sci-Fi Author (washingtonpost.com)
Charles Sheffield‘s site is worth visiting, and contains a good bibliography and some nice bits of autobiography:
…I hated what I was finding; and after a while I had the dangerous thought, “You know, I could probably write something as bad as this myself.”
I tried. And soon I learned that I could not only produce something as bad as what I was reading, I could write something a good deal worse.
Charles Stross summarizes an article about Computing with Time Machines. He also has some interesting comments about Curious Yellow (probably a better link to follow then the one I gave before, to the original article).
Comments on the ORT SF Forum about the last issue of the Meimad (“The Tenth Dimension”), the SF&F magazine I edit.
Renee describes her experiences in WorldCon, such as hearing depressing tips for writing successful fantasy and talking linguistics with CJ Cherryh.
Ziv Caspi is an Israeli geek (techie who plays D&D = my sort of people) who has a Radio weblog., where I found a link to this essay by Gene Wolfe on J.R.R. Tolkien.