SF Tidbits for 8/16/07
- Shriek: The Movie, promoting Jeff VanderMeers' book, is released on the internet. [via Locus Online]
- At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Jeff Carlson, author of Plague Year, a "high-concept tech thriller about mankind's last-ditch efforts to defeat a nanotech plague"; and Richard Kadrey, author of Butcher Bird, in which the protagonist Spyder Lee is bitten by a demon who "infects him with sight, with the truth about the world".
- Chris Roberson's next Celestial Empire project will be Three Unbroken, an online serialized novel that will start appearing this fall.
- James Patrick Kelly is podcasting his novel Look Into the Sun. Here's Part 24.
- Prehistoric Pulp looks at dinosaurs in science fiction. [via Robert J. Sawyer whose book Far-Seer makes the list]
- The members of MetaFilter are listing science fiction books that appeal to mainstream readers.
- Bibliophile Stalker looks at shelving books based on RPGs.
- Woot (!) has posted the results of a contest to create a movie poster combining two or more movies. Thus you get posters for Transformers of the Carribean and a mashup of The Simpsons and Spiderman 3.
- A UCF physicist says Hollywood movies hurt students' understanding of science. "...he uses a scene from Superman when the hero flies around the earth an in effort to reverse time and save Lois Lane from death. When students show up to class, they dissect the scenes and learn the real laws of physics. In the Superman example, he explains the real way angular momentum works." [via SlashDot]
- The Hacks zine points us to a label maker for Atari 2600 games.
- Geekend looks at owning your own Star Wars arcade game. Man, I spent hours in that thing. Mmmm...vector graphics....
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| Posted by John on Thursday August 16, 2007 - 1:17 AM
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