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• Philip Pullman's Northern Lights (released in the U.S. as The Golden Compass) has been named the best children's book of the past 70 years.


• Fantasybookspot interviews John Twelve Hawks, author of The Traveler (awesome book, review coming soon!) and the sequel, The Dark River. [via Locus Online]


• USA Today profiles Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will Be Invincible.


• Intergalactic Medicine has a free fiction preview by Orson Scott Card: "A Young Man with Prospects". [via Locus Online]


• Free Geekery offers The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Becoming a (Real) Cyborg.


• James Patrick Kelly is podcasting his novel Look Into the Sun. Here's Part 18.


• How Paul Levinson went face-to-screen with Jack Thompson.


• Real Science: Larry Ketchersid (Dusk Before the Dawn) compares Quantum vs. Classical Computing.


• Wiz Kids Games is giving out coupons for free Star Wars Pocket Models.


• Q: How did the Star Wars fanboy cross the road? A: By pushing a Star Wars AT-AT baby stroller. [via Thingamababy]

Share: | Posted by John on Friday June 22, 2007 - 12:11 AM | Category: Tidbits | © 2007 SF Signal

I have got to get one of those AT-AT strollers for my nephew!

How many points would that be worth on the superfan scale? Get yer ubergeeks started early!

Posted by bloginhood on Friday June 22, 2007 at 2:07 AM

I wouldn't have picked Pullman for the best children's book in the past 70 years. I barely got through it, myself. No "Cricket in Times Square"? No "Stuart Little"? No Madeline L'Engle? No Lloyd Alexander?

Posted by Fred Kiesche on Friday June 22, 2007 at 6:58 AM

Best book in the last 70 years? Oh please! Where do I go to throw up?

Posted by Carl V. on Friday June 22, 2007 at 7:58 AM

>> Where do I go to throw up?

On George Lucas' porch?

(There's no reason to waste a perfectly good vomitting on Pullman when there's so much prequel hate still hanging around...)

Posted by John on Friday June 22, 2007 at 8:48 AM

Woo hoo! New John Twelvehawks novel.

Posted by E_I on Friday June 22, 2007 at 10:07 AM

A correction - Orson Scott Card's story is not free, but is part of the 4th issue of IGMS. There's a free preview, but to read the whole story, you need to buy the issue.

Posted by ScottD on Friday June 22, 2007 at 12:22 PM

ScottD: Thanks! Updated.

Posted by John on Friday June 22, 2007 at 1:07 PM

Hey. I'm the SF Signal "Real Science" geekboy! Woo hoo!

Also, just finished The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks. It was good, but I did not enjoy it as much as the first one.

Posted by Larry on Friday June 22, 2007 at 5:23 PM

A weaker sequel? Unheard of !

Just make sure you don't fall into that apparent norm.

Posted by John on Friday June 22, 2007 at 11:48 PM