SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 7/30/07

SF Tidbits for 7/30/07

At ComicCon, they showed some decent (but sometimes hard to see) footage of the upcoming Iron Man movie. Also, extended footage of The Golden Compass was shown.

Pat's Fantasy Hotlist interviews Tobias S. Buckell (Ragamuffin) On sf being "respectable": "I don't need anyone's permission to want to play on the bigger, cool field with more and wilder ideas and tools. I'm just doing it because it's fun."

SF author David Levine has gone far beyond what is expected of the average sf reader - even resorting to mathematics! - to answer some questions about the orbital dynamics of Jay Lake's Mainspring.

A small handful of the fiction at Strange Horizons are now available under Creative Commons licenses. [via BoingBoing]

Susannah Mandel explores Where SF and fantasy stands in relation to mainstream literature.

The Time Traveler Show #20 features John Scalzi, Sarah Monette and Nick Sagan.

Bummer.

Understandable, though...you wouldn't want to generate any actual buzz for a movie or anything.

Posted by John on Monday July 30, 2007 at 12:41 PM

They put a spot out a year early for The Hulk. And this one's out in May.
Maybe they just don't want hopes set too high.
Though it can't possibly any worse than Hulk.

Posted by SciFiChick on Monday July 30, 2007 at 2:01 PM

so I clicked on the Iron man link and like 2 hours later I ended up watching 7 episodes of this.

......

Never put a dead link to youtube again!

Posted by joshua corning on Monday July 30, 2007 at 9:37 PM