SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 8/15/06

SF Tidbits for 8/15/06

MWB's World (and YouTube) bring you: Prince Planet!

Here's an excerpt of a Rolling Stone interview with Kurt Vonnegut. [via Backwards City]

A Philip K Dick interview excerpt from 1977. [via Cynical-C]

Following Scott Lynch's list of 11 things He will never to put in a fantasy novel, Deep Genre's Kevin Murphy lists 6 More Things He Could do Without in Fantastic Literature.

Locus Online has Matt Cheney's Field Guide to Recent Short Story Collections.

From Locus Online: Infinity Plus interviews Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Apex SF/H Digest interviews Cherie Priest.

Also at Infinity Plus: Ian R MacLeod interviews Martin Sketchley. [via Pyr-o-Mania]

Matrix Magazine talks with Martin Sketchley and John Meaney. [via Pyr-o-mania]

The Agony Column has a 2003 and 2006 Conversation with Cory Doctorow: Singularities Real and Imagined.

All five of the captains from all five Star Trek series will provide voice talent for upcoming 360 and PC videogame Star Trek: Legacy. [via The Feed]

YouTube Moment of Zen: Warp Factor Love. [Not that I troll Wil Wheaton's blog or anything.]

Sure overused themes in fantasy lit are annoying. But bad overused things in fantasy are great in real life. Try re-naming things in your house or apartment in bad fantasy style.

The Dishwasher of Doom.

The Hallway of Everlasting Madness.

The Bathroom of Despair.

Adds a little spice to life.

And on the Prince Planet note, you have to love shows that name characters to fit their roles. The Worthy family = good guys. Sylvester Sleaze = bad guy. It saves you needless character development and exploration...

Posted by mwb on Tuesday August 15, 2006 at 9:38 AM

Thanks John, that Warp Factor Love video is......scary. Is that guy going to kiss himself?

Now, which song should I listen to to remove WFL from my brain?

The Hoff?

Bilbo?

Hobbits to Isengard?

I can't decide which is worse/better.

Posted by jp on Tuesday August 15, 2006 at 11:00 AM

The video reinforces the reason that some folks are not allowed to be on TV - they are scary. As for top videos - Hobbits to Isengard is it for me.. I think of it as my theme music

Posted by Tim on Tuesday August 15, 2006 at 12:37 PM