SF Tidbits for 8/29/07

- Amazon blog interviews Matt Ruff, author of Bad Monkeys. (Also: Matt Ruff has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.)
- Here's a video of Terry Brooks talking about The Elves of Cintra, second book in the Genesis of Shannara trilogy. There's also a written interview.
- At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Margo Lanagan, author of Red Spikes.
- From The Globe and Mail: China loves Robert J. Sawyer, author of Rollback.
- SFF World interviews Scott Lynch, author of Red Seas under Red Skies. "I like to have it both ways -- beauty and grandeur and mystery piled on top of a grounded sense of the muck and hardships of actual life, especially in this sort of archaic age."
- As per Publisher's Weekly, science fiction author/editor Charles N. Brown (co-founder and editor of Locus magazine) won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards. [via Jonathan Strahan]
- Matt Cheney rounds up all the linkity goodness to be had on Christopher Barzak Day.
- Wyrdsmiths looks at Why Books Fail.
- Blue Moon Rising points us to the fantastic (and amusing) artwork of Michael Dashow.
- Science fiction writer and environmental consultant Nina Munteanu looks at the possible dystopian outcomes regarding the unethical use of AI in her post Cyborgs & Evolution.
- Elvis has left the filming... Bruce Campbell will not be part of Bubba Nosferatu, sequel to Bubba Ho-Tep.
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| Posted by John on Wednesday August 29, 2007 - 12:05 AM
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