Capclave

The book should be in bookstores by March 29th, 2011.

Congratulations to Capclave GOH Catherynne Valente on the Publishers Weekly starred review of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her Own Making.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-64961-6

Congratulations to frequent Capclave program participant Sean Wallace on being named a 2011 World Fantasy Awards judge.

http://tinyurl.com/4ayyhe5

This week’s Functional Nerds podcast features an interview with 2009 GOH Harry Turtledove

http://functionalnerds.com/2011/02/episode-046-harry-turtledove/

Congratulations to Capclave 2010 Guest of Honor Connie Willis on Blackout/All Clear being named a finalist for the best novel Nebula Award.

http://www.sfwa.org/2011/02/2010-nebula-nominees/

Capclave will have a fan table at Boskone this weekend. so if you have not yet bought your membership, stop by our fan table, pet a dodo and buy your Capclave membership before the rates go up.

Capclave congratulates Guest of Honor Catherynne Valente on her novel, Habitation of the Blessed, and her short stories, How to Become a Mars Overlord and Thirteen Ways of Looking at Spacetime, being listed on the Locus Magazine 2010 Recommended Reading List.

http://www.locusmag.com/Magazine/2011/Issue02_RecommendedReading.html

Capclave congratulates Guest of Honor Carrie Vaughn on her short story Amarylis being listed on the Locus Magazine 2010 Recommended Reading List.

http://www.locusmag.com/Magazine/2011/Issue02_RecommendedReading.html

Mythpunk: An Interview with Catherynne M. Valente By JoSelle Vanderhooft

Since its coining in 2006 by author Catherynne M. Valente, the term “mythpunk” has been used among an ever-growing number of fantasy readers to describe speculative fiction and poetry that melds elements of myths, folk tales, and fairy tales with postmodern literary techniques and, quite often, feminist and multicultural perspectives. In this first of our four part series about mythpunk literature’s history and future, Strange Horizons sat down with Valente to discuss what inspired her to call this movement mythpunk, her favorite mythpunk authors, and mythpunk’s relationship to the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.

Read the full interview on Strange Horizon’s website.

We will be at Philcon this weekend (Nov. 19-21), so stop by the Capclave fan table and buy a 2011 membership if you have not already done so. Guests of Honor for 2011 are Catherynne Valente and Carrie Vaughn. Memberships currently are only $40.

We will also be selling copies of the Jeff Vandermeer and Connie Willis books that debuted at Capclave in October, as well as copies of the turtledove book from 2009 and Future Washington.