Genres: non-fiction
Containing material unavailable for twenty years - this is a comprehensive guide to the capital city of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, getting to the heart of Ankh-Morpork's secrets, societies and guilds.
Ankh-Morpork is a bottomless pit of secrets. It's time to unearth a few more...
In the second volume of this confidential guide, brave travellers are made privy to the inner workings of more illustrious Ankh-Morpork societies.
Disabuse yourself of notions of professionalism under which you may hold the City Watch; discover what serious business is undertaken by the Fools' Guild (joking is no laughing matter); and, should you be lucky, achieve true enlightenment through the teachings of Lu-Tze.
One thing's for sure: after you've read this book, Ankh-Morpork's Guilds are going to need to come up with new ways of doing things.
Completely revamped and redesigned, this full-colour book contains material from Discworld Diaries across the decades.
Read more: The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume II - Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby, Stephen Briggs
Hugo awards nominees announced
- Written by Sini
- Category: Fandom
This year's Hugo awards nominees for best novel are:
Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Morrow; Atlantic UK)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury)
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor)
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit)
Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (Tor)
Anticipation site has links to home pages and other category nominees.
An interview with Johanna Sinisalo
- Written by Seregil of Rhiminee
- Category: Interviews
Johanna Sinisalo is a Finnish science fiction and fantasy writer. She was awarded the Finlandia Prize for literature in 2000 for her first novel Not Before Sundown (Troll: A Love Story) and now her novellette "Baby Doll" is a Nebula award nominee.
Risingshadow.net has had the honour of interviewing Johanna Sinisalo about the Nebula award nomination:
AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHANNA SINISALO
Read more: An interview with Johanna Sinisalo
Philip José Farmer has died
- Written by Seregil of Rhiminee
- Category: Fandom
Philip José Farmer, a prolific and popular science fiction writer who shocked readers in the 1950s by depicting sex with aliens and challenged conventional pieties of the genre with caustic fables set on bizarre worlds of his own devising, died on Wednesday, February 25th. He was 91 and lived in Peoria, Illinois.
Source: The New York Times.
Baby Doll by Sinisalo a Nebula nominee
- Written by Sini
- Category: Fandom
The Nebula nominees are announced and the Risingshadow.net staff is really excited about the nomination of Johanna Sinisalo's Baby Doll in the novelette category!
Congratulations Johanna!
Novels category nominees:
Little Brother - Doctorow, Cory
Powers - Le Guin, Ursula K.
Cauldron - McDevitt, Jack
Brasyl - McDonald, Ian
Making Money - Pratchett, Terry
Superpowers - Schwartz, David J.
Photo by Heini Lehväslaiho.
Thesis about Soviet chilren's fantasy fiction
- Written by Seregil of Rhiminee
- Category: Fandom
A thesis about Soviet children's fantasy fiction (Fantastic in Form, Ambiguous in Content: Secondary Worlds in Soviet Children's Fantasy Fiction) by Jenniliisa Salminen was examined in Turku University on February 13, 2009.
The thesis can be found here: https://oa.doria.fi/handle/10024/43575