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• Adventures in Scifi Publishing podcasts Michael Moorcock (The Metatemporal Detective). [via Pyr-o-mania]


• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Steven Gould, author of Jumper and Reflex, the basis for an upcoming movie.


• Chris Roberson offers free fiction from his book Paragaea.


• David Langford has posted Ansible #243 for October 2007.


• Times Online lists The 40 most memorable aliens.


• /Film lists Top 10 Superhero Movies.


• Geekend lists The Top 20 Sci-Fi Starship Captains of All Time.


• L.E. Modesitt asks Why Doesn't Society Catch Up to Science Fiction? "I'd submit that there's a conflict between what's likely technically and what's likely socially, and social change will be far slower than predicted. In fact, that's already occurred."


• Author Mark Chadbourn asks: Are RPGs Killing Fantasy? SF Diplomat responds.


• M. John Harrison offers advice for fantasy writers: "Substitute imagination for exhaustiveness, and inventiveness for research. As a reader I'm not interested in a 'fully worked out' world. I'm not interested in 'self consistency'...Tear this one up, & start again with that very good sentence from p50, 'I didn't know what was happening.'" [via Jeff VanderMeer]


• Entertainment Weekly looks at the possibility of Peter Jackson directing The Hobbit after all. [via MarketSaw]


• A.R.Yngve points us to Teresa Nilsen Hayden's Random Plot Generator.

Share: | Posted by John on Saturday October 06, 2007 - 10:56 AM | Category: Tidbits | © 2007 SF Signal