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• John Farrell discusses Gene Wolfe and reviews Soldier of Sidon. "I recently asked a veteran New York editor whether Wolfe could find a publisher today if he were just coming along as a young writer. 'Probably not,' she admitted. His writing is too religious, too difficult, and too strange." [via Locus Online]


• Yatterings interviews Alastair Reynolds, author of The Prefect. "My favorite contemporary SF writer is Gene Wolfe - I don't think you can beat him."


• Audible.com announced the launch of James Patrick Kelly's StoryPod 2.0.


• Eric Flint talks about about the relationship between drm-free ebooks and the opacity of the book market: "In this essay, I want to turn the problem around and approach it from a positive standpoint, by examining the many ways in which a non-DRM approach to electronic publishing can help the situation of authors and publishers."


• BBC Radio 7 is broadcasting a four part adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters this week. [via The Forbidden Planet]


• The fourth issue of Darker Matter has just gone live.


• New/Updated at Gutenberg: "Subspace Survivors" by E. E. Smith


• Meandering Passage asks: What happened to suspension of disbelief?


• The new issue of Steampunk Magazine is out. [via BoingBoing]


• Blogzarro interviews Battlestar Galactica's Lucy Lawless.


• This just in: The Drake Equation is obsolete!


• SciFiChick lists 13 SciFi and Fantasy Shows Set to Debut This Fall.

Share: | Posted by John on Friday June 01, 2007 - 12:24 AM | Category: Tidbits | © 2007 SF Signal

That quote about Wolfe is a hoot. The truth is Wolfe is somewhat conservative, which does not sit well with your typical left-leaning young hip urban editor in NYC. Which is a shame, because most of them aren't fit to carry his pencil case.

Posted by Fred Kiesche on Friday June 01, 2007 at 7:21 AM

Thanks for the link to the Lucy Lawless interview

Posted by flo on Saturday June 30, 2007 at 8:39 PM