SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 6/26/07

SF Tidbits for 6/26/07

John Scalzi interviews Allen Steele, author of Spindrift.

Subterranean Online has posted new fiction: "Unrequited Love" by Gene Wolfe and a new Gene Wolfe Story and "Suicide Jack and the One-Eyed King" (Part 2) by Elizabeth Bear

LifeHack lists 14 Ways to Cultivate a Lifetime Reading Habit. "If reading is a habit you'd like to get into, there are a number of ways to cultivate it."

James Patrick Kelly is podcasting his novel Look Into the Sun. Here's Part 19.

John C. Wright lists children's books that are better than Northern Lights (a.k.a. The Golden Compass).

Infinity Plus interviews Eric Brown, author of Helix.

Here's a video Charles Stross talking about The Atrocity Archives. [via Big Dumb Object via Orbit Books]

Wired looks at 60 Years of Flying Saucers.

The complex and terrifying reality of Star Wars fandom: Star Wars fans hate Star Wars! [via Geekend]

Orbit Books is running a contest. The winner gets a book a month from Orbit US.

At Strange Horizons, Matt Cheney asks "What are you going to do with all those books?"

Reacting to an essay in The New York Review of Science Fiction, Matt Cheney also ponders The Shibboleth of "The Literary Establishment. L.E. Modesitt responds, too.

I used to have a large number of books as well. However, I find myself reducing the number of texts I keep on hand every year. Many times the books were good enough to read one time but not a second. It's these texts I've started to donate or give away over time. There are just a few books that I know I'll go back and read again (The Fountainhead, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Fear and Loathing, etcetera) that I keep on hand.

Another option is audiobooks. I've been an addicted Audible user for years now. It's nice to have a library of a few hundred books that take up no room whatsoever.

I think I'm one of the few that wishes eBooks would take off. I'd love to pay 1/2 price for an eBook version of a text that I could download on demand.

To me, the personal library as a stack of books taking up room in my house has jumped the big fish with sharp teeth. Besides, how would I fit all of them in my retirement AirStream?

Posted by Dean on Tuesday June 26, 2007 at 6:54 AM