SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 8/22/07

SF Tidbits for 8/22/07

Tor Art Director Irene Gallo shows off the cool Stephan Martiniere cover for Jay Lake's Escapement, the sequel to Mainspring.

More Tor news from Irene Gallo: Tor announces its first podcast - from the 65th World Science Fiction Convention in Japan, and they now have a facebook page.

In a guest-post at Solaris blog, Chris Roberson offers an apology for the lack of monkeys, pirates, ninjas, and airships in his book Set the Seas on Fire: "...as everyone knows, ninjas and pirates are somewhat past their sell-by date, having been somewhat over-represented in popular culture these last few years. ...I would like to propose that we substitute some new alternatives for these tropes from this point onwards. ...going forward all ninjas shall be replaced with birthday clowns, and all pirates shall instead be railroad conductors."

At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Brian Herbert, author of Sandworms of Dune, co-written with Kevin J. Anderson.

The Guardian asks: Why are there so few serious book programmes on television? [via Tobias Buckell]

Jupiter magazine is offering a chance to win a copy of The Science of Doctor Who published by Icon Books. [via UKSF Book News]

Suicide Girls' list of "The 10 Most Worst Films Of All Time" includes Batman & Robin and Zardoz.

Here's a scene from Alien (you know the one) captured in the glory that is Lego. [via Texas Best Grok via Neatorama]