Introducing Jack Dann
Posted by: Reading Victoria Moderator
20 February 2009
Jack Dann, editor of Dreaming Again is next to blog on the Summer Read blog from 20 - 24 February.
Jack Dann has written or edited over seventy books, including Junction, The Man Who Melted, The Memory Cathedral, and Bad Medicine. He is also the editor of the anthology Wandering Stars, and is a recipient of many awards, including the Nebula Award, the Australian Aurealis Award, the World Fantasy Award and the Ditmar Award.
Dreaming Again is one of the books on the Summer Read shortlist.
Following the success of Dreaming Down-Under comes Dreaming Again; a compilation of 35 short-stories celebrating Australian science-fiction and fantasy writing. This captivating collection features both acclaimed international bestsellers and fresh new voices on the speculative fiction scene, covering science-fiction, fantasy, horror, Aboriginal fantastical fiction, and mainstream magical realism.
As part of the free Summer Read events across Victoria Jack Dann will host a conversation panel of sci-fi and fantasy writers Trudy Canavan, Adam Browne and Cecilia Dart-Thornton at:
Nunawading Library, 379 Whitehorse Road Nunawading on Wednesday 18 February, 2009 7.00 – 8.30 pm
For more information phone Nunawading Library 9873 5638 or book online at http://summerread37.eventbrite.com
What Jack says about summer reading
“It really is summer again.
Time to sneak away and…read.
I want to reread E. F. Benson’s coy and cozy Map and Lucia trilogy and P. G. Woodhouse’s exquisitely silly Jeeves novels. I want to take another look at Margo Lanagan’s Tender Morsels and try to figure out how the hell she did it…and I want to finish The Gnostic Gospels, read the Folio editions of Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio, illustrated by Blake and Dali respectively, and the last two volumes of Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy. I’ve also got my eye on Hilary Mantel’s historical novel A Place of Greater Safety and Anathem by Neil Stephenson. I’m going to read a lot more science fiction and fantasy, and I think I’ll reread Henry Roth’s 1934 stream-of-consciousness masterpiece Call It Sleep.”
February 21, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Michael,
Benson’s Lucia books are well worth the read. I =promise= you’ll like them.
Happy reading!
–JACK
February 20, 2009 at 9:34 pm
There are so many P.G. Wodehouse books I haven’t read yet that I should be making an effort to get through them before I die (I’ll be 60 in a year and a half — it tends to concentrate the mind).
But I may make a detour to re-read E.F. Benson’s Lucia books.