SF Tidbits for 8/14/07
- SF Author Sean Williams (Saturn Returns, The Hanging Mountains) weighs in on Mundane SF. [via Pyr-o-Mania]
- At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Timothy Zahn, author of Dragon and Judge, the fifth book in his young-adult Dragonback series.
- ActuSF interviews Vernor Vinge. "I think technological acceleration could fail in two rather different ways: (1) Some things may turn out to be much more difficult than we think. Technological trend curves are not laws of nature, (2)Physical disasters (human-made and/or natural) could intervene. As long as we are trapped on Earth, all our hopes are at risk." [via Velcro-City Tourist Board]
- Joe Clark is annotating William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Is it me, or is this a strange choice from his canon of work?
- Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker profiles Philip K. Dick. "Of all American writers, none have got the genre-hack-to-hidden-genius treatment quite so fully as Philip K. Dick, the California-raised and based science-fiction writer who, beginning in the nineteen-fifties, wrote thirty-six speed-fuelled novels, went crazy in the early seventies, and died in 1982, only fifty-three." [via Locus Online]
- Free fiction (in PDF) at Concatenation: "Reality Check" by David Brin.
- Robin Hobb humorously argues that blogging will suck away all your writing time. Justine Larbalestier respectfully disagrees.
- Michael Swanwick has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog. [via Locus Online]
- Now casting: Lost Boys 2. Coreys Haim and Feldman will be appearing. Did anyone ever doubt they would be? [via SFX]
- REMINDER: Chat with authors and artists! Felix at the #comments blog reminds us that this week is Sci-Fi Week at XFire.
- A.R. Yngve has posted YouTube videos featuring Tim Powers giving a talk about writing. Marginal video quality, but good audio.
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| Posted by John on Tuesday August 14, 2007 - 12:15 AM
| Category: Tidbits
| © 2007 SF Signal
Via the Sean Williams post is an even better commentary on "Mundane SF":
http://ianmcdonald.livejournal.com/2378.html
Ian McDonald, with comments by Stross and others.
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Tuesday August 14, 2007 at 12:53 PM
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