SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 2/6/07

SF Tidbits for 2/6/07

The Oregonian profiles Dan Simmons, author of The Terror. [vis SFBC Blog]

SCI FI Weekly interviews Joe R. Lansdale, author of Flaming London, Zeppelins West as well as the novella "Bubba Ho-Tep" which was the basis for the Bruce Campbell movie.

Wil McCarthy's latest SCI FI Weekly column, Fairy Science Tales, explores the history of fairies in light of the recent theatrical release of Pan's Labyrinth.

Gail Z. Martin has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.

SF Crowsnest looks at why SF fans love rereading books and rewatching movies over and over. [via Gravity Lens]

DeepLinking shares The Big List of Bookish Social Networks.

Radio Theater offers Firefly fan-audio radio dramas. [via Jamdin]

Dan Simmons has written a few other things too. I might have mentioned Hyperion or Carion Comfort before The Terror myself, although I see the article was prompted by that new work.

Posted by scottsh on Tuesday February 06, 2007 at 11:21 AM

I wonder if radio dramas might see a comback thanks to the plethora of MP3 players out there? Whether you utilize your cell phone or a dedicated player, download from Apple's megahit iTunes site or just directly via the web to your PC, everybody has some way of listening nowadays.

Posted by scottsh on Tuesday February 06, 2007 at 11:57 AM

I listen to "Old Wounds", the Firefly audio drama. It's not bad. takes a bit to get used to new voices to go along with the charactes we know and love, and then to keep those voices separate over the course of the entire show as each episode comes out so far apart.

I also listed to the Firefly fanfic podcast Tales from the 'Verse, which presents readings of firefly fanfic - doe pretty well also, but just read by one person instead of cast of performers and a huge production effort. So far, they've picked really good fic to read.

I tried listening to Strangely Literal, the fanfic podcast for Firefly, Buffy, and Angel - but it wasn't up to the quality of the first two mentioned.

There's apparently a huge following of podcast versions of books, see podiobooks.com. I've downloaded two or three, but haven't had a chance to listen to them yet. One author has even had cast members from Firefly read the "The story so far..." part of his podcast books. How cool is that!? (I think SFSignal actual mentioned this in a previous post awhile back).

I'd love to be a part of an audio production like that. But I rarely visits the boards and I always miss the announcements of new productions and call for volunteers/voices.

Posted by Kev on Tuesday February 06, 2007 at 6:19 PM