SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 5/17/06

SF Tidbits for 5/17/06

An informal poll of The 50 Best Characters from Marvel Comics. (Although it occurs to me that the top 20 are all that matter. I mean, any list that has The Sub-Mariner on it...) [via Backwards City]

SF Site interviews Pat Cadigan.

James K. Wong produces some cool retro-sci-fi art. [via Piriquito]

Subterranean Press has a Tim Powers excerpt: A Soul in a Bottle

Movie Mashup: Neo vs. Robocop. [via Milk and Cookies]

Here's the DVD cover art for the upcoming re-re-re-re-re-release of the Star Wars DVDs. [via Club Jade]

Slate asks: What Are Independent Bookstores Really Good For? [via Jay Lake]

Reviews of science fiction stories involving moons. [via Vector Sphere, who also links to Wee Toy Soldiers]

An self-explanatory website: Isultingly Stupid Movie Physics. [via Rabbit and Crow] Maybe this is a distant cousin of Bad Astronomy.

The NY Times on the future of books. [via Locus Online]

SciFi Wire profiles author George Zebrowskis' upcoming collection Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts

The insulting movie physics site has a tip jar. No cause is to small to launch a fund raising drive on the internet.

I wonder if there's a tip jar where you can donate to the Jar-Jar Binks Defamation trust?

Posted by Jose on Wednesday May 17, 2006 at 10:10 AM

I read through the list of marvel superheroes and I would rather like to see a top 50 list of all superheroes from DC, Marvel and other comics. I think that would be a much better list...

Posted by Tim on Wednesday May 17, 2006 at 3:56 PM