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• Here's a fan site for Louis Slobodkin (born on this day), author/illustrator of The Space Ship under the Apple Tree, a book I bought after hearing it hooked Alan Dean Foster on science fiction. It turns out Slobodkin wrote and/or illustrated a ton of books! [via Jed Hartman]


• Oort-Cloud is a new experimental genre website claiming to be "The Future of Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing". The site is geared for both readers and writers of sf/f. [via Boing^2]


• Matt Cheney remembers Brian Aldiss' Greybeard.


• Michale Dirda profiles Clark Ashton Smith. [via Locus Online]


• Richard Larson has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.


• Robert J. Sawyer writes about robots and artificial intelligence in his article AI And Sci-Fi: My, Oh, My!.


• An Army Lawyer notices a common theme among John Scalzi's Old Man's War, Joe Haldeman's The Forever War and Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers: Lots of random sex within co-ed units.


• 1979: LeGuin's "The Dispossessed" and Anarchism by Robert C. Newman, a SUNY/Buffalo professor.


• Monday YouTube: Superman: The Musical. [via The Movie Blog]

Share: | Posted by John on Monday February 19, 2007 - 12:05 AM | Category: Tidbits | © 2007 SF Signal

More great links to take up my day! Louis Slobodkin's illustrations are wonderful. May have to pick up that book and give it a good read.

I think it would be much easier to recruit an army if knocking boots was one of the advertised benefits!

Posted by Carl V. on Monday February 19, 2007 at 10:44 AM