SF Signal: SF Tidbits Part VI

SF Tidbits Part VI

Welcome to another installment of SF Tidbits!

Big Dumb Object points us to a Neil Gaiman interview excerpt from the UK mag SFX. (Personal observation: About 95% of the SFX covers feature some graphic that obscures the bottom of the "F" in the title, making it, I suppose, a more eye-catching on the newsstands.)

Christopher Paolini’s Eldest, sequel to the surprise hit Eragon, has become the best-selling children's book ever in Random House history, taking the title away from the latest Harry Potter book.

SF author Scott Westerfeld elaborates on the Elasticity of Time Travel.

Steven Spielberg will soon be working on an adaptation of When Worlds Collide, the 1933 Philip Wylie book that was made into a movie in 1951 by George Pal (Coincidentally, both Pal and Spielberg also adapted H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds).

The SFX -> SEX thing was indeed a running joke when the magazine first launched.

Now in a shope that sells magazines (even a big chain like WHSmiths) a magazine with SEX on the cover barely raises an eyebrow amidst the deluge of lads mags and gadget mags with almost naked woman on the front.

Posted by James on Thursday September 01, 2005 at 10:00 AM

I have an original 1926 copy of The Moon Maid. Was wondering if it had any value??

Thanks, Tom

Posted by Tom on Tuesday October 10, 2006 at 8:29 PM