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Here’s another review of mini-Masterpieces of Science Fiction by John at http://www.scifidimensions.com/Sep08/minimasterpieces.htm

I like his pick up of the double meaning of “mini-Masterpieces!”

SF Crowsnest.com has recently posted their review of mini-Masterpieces of Science Fiction at their site. You can check it out here: http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2008/nz13052.php . I never did receive the e-mail inquiry about postage to the UK. For now it’s just $2.00.

SF Signal rated mini-Masterpieces of Science Fiction four stars!! Six of the stories rated four stars or higher with “Last Contact” by Stephen Baxter rated five stars.

You can check out the review here: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/007094.html

I thought I’d weigh in on this topic as a parent of a 17 year old high school senior. He plans to go into engineering as a career, so he should be inclined to read SF. He does but I would like him to read more science fiction.  Like many of you, I’ve got a rather large science fiction library. I’ve got the old stuff as well as the new stuff. I’ve encouraged my son on many ocassions to read contemporary SF. He quickly loses interest in those books that he starts. He would rather read older SF. It may be that he’s put off by the time investment needed to read a series of  books rather than a stand alone novel. Afterall, reading takes time away from his other pursuits (Guitar Hero, etc.) My son’s favorite SF books are Ender’s Game, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and I, Robot. As you can see, there’s nothing contemporary on this list. While I don’t claim that my son is necessarily representative of his age group’s reading preferences, I do believe the older titles of our genre do have their place and cannot be entirely be dismissed as unworthy reading material for today’s teenagers.

Denice claimed her iPod Shuffle this week. Go girl!!!

The winner is Denice M Thornhill. Congratulations!!!

Denice, go to www.audiotexttapes.net. Click on contact us. Then send me an e-mail providing me with the street address you gave me at Denvention3. If the street address in your e-mail matches the street address you wrote down on the yellow index card in Denver then you’ve won an iPOD shuffle! You have through Friday, August 22nd to claim the iPOD. If you haven’t claimed your iPOD by then we’ll draw another winner on the 23rd.

I finally made it back from Denver. Met lots of wonderful people!! The Hugo Awards are lots of fun to attend. The Hugo Awards that I care most about are for short story, novelette, novella, and novel. Only Connie Willis was present to accept her award. I wish the other authors could have been there too. I did get to meet Greg van Eekhout. He told me he was quite taken with Tom Dheere’s reading of “Far As You Can Go” in mini-Masterpieces of Science Fiction. I also got to meet Greg Bear and Kevin Anderson. I just missed meeting James Patrick Kelly. WorldCon was lots of fun! It’s the first con I’ve sustained an injury at. I got tendonitis. I’ll be glad when I can walk normally again. All in all, Denvention 3 was a blast!!

SF Site has posted a review of mini-Masterpieces of Science Fiction.(http://www.sfsite.com/08a/mm277.htm).  The anthology is scheduled for release August 6th.

This will be the last post until we get back from the World Con in Denver. If your attending Denvention 3 stop by our table in the dealers room and chat with us. Our table is along one of the walls. Hope to see you there!

I’m heading off to Tulsa for Conestoga so this will be my last post ’til after the con. Just a reminder that if you’re at the con stop by the dealers room and say hi!

I thought I’d mention that Tom Dheere, who reads Kin, also reads four other stories in mini-Masterpieces of Science Fiction. They are: 1) Far As You Can Go by Greg van Eekhout; 2) Gene Wars by Paul J. McAuley; 3) Bright Red Star by Bud Sparhawk; and 4) None So Blind by Joe Haldeman.