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• Sci Fi Wire Interviews Ann VanderMeer, new fiction editor of Weird Tales.


• Paul Levinson has a new home on the Internet.


• Links to online versions of the 2006 Preliminary Nebula Award nominees have been updated thanks to Jon Joseph Adams posting the F&SF stories online.


• SF Site interviews Ken MacLeod, author of The Execution Channel.


• SCI FI Wire profiles L.E. Modesitt, author of The Elysium Commission.


• The Guardian has a quickie interview with Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy. [via Kid's Lit]


• Sigourney Weaver has signed on for James Cameron's Avatar. [via Geek Monthly]


• From 1999: David Brin asks: Why is George Lucas peddling an elitist, anti-democratic agenda under the guise of escapist fun?


• Free audio fiction: SFF Audio podcasts the Robert Silverberg's 1972 story "{Now + n, Now - n}".


• Locus Online has compiled a directory of 2006 books arranged by book editor, as a source of information for Hugo Awards nominators in this first year of the new "Editor - Long Form" category. Also: Deadline for Hugo nominations is March 3, 2007. [via Locus Online]


• File under: Kids don't know how good life is. I wish my high school English class included reading Tom Godwin's "Cold Equations" and James Patrick Kelly's "Think Like a Dinosaur" back to back.


• BBT Blog performs a public service by warning of A Global Threat to the Human Race. Watch out, Ripley!

Share: | Posted by John on Saturday February 17, 2007 - 12:04 AM | Category: Tidbits | © 2007 SF Signal

Brin's deconstruction of Star Wars, however, quietly hides the fact that he injects his own politics and political views into his own SF novels, sometimes to choking effect.

Posted by Paul on Saturday February 17, 2007 at 10:33 AM

Of course, John could have pointed out in the Brin link our review of Star Wars On Trial. The opening statements by Brin are an expansion of his thoughts from the 1999 article.

And I have to agree with Paul, at least as far as On Trial is concerned. The people attacking Star Wars have a difficult time keeping their politics out of their essays. In some cases that's ok, in others, not so much. But it was still a fun read.

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday February 17, 2007 at 7:03 PM