SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 11/6/07

SF Tidbits for 11/6/07

Finding Wonderland interviews Connie Willis, author of D.A. and The Winds of Marble Arch. "I love science fiction, and I can't imagine calling myself anything but a science fiction writer, but I know people sometimes have a very odd idea of what it is. 'Oh, you write science fiction,' they say, sort of wrinkling up their nose as if they smelled something bad, laugh nervously, and ask, 'So, have you ever been abducted by aliens?'" [via Edward Champion]

SFX interviews Stephen R. Donaldson (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant). "...I did not intend my work as polemics. I believe that as a story teller, it's my job to serve the story. It's not the story's job to serve me."

John Joseph Adams profiles David Moles. "It's true that a woman in the developed world today has many more opportunities than she would have had a hundred years ago, or even fifty, but I also think that in American society particularly, we -- men and women both -- lie to ourselves about how much freedom and opportunity we have"

Free reads: Speculative fiction e-zine Heliotrope issue #3 has been posted with fiction by Brendan Connell, Tina Connolly and Rob Vagle; and articles by Jeffrey Ford, Michael Moorcock and Jeff Vandermeer.

More free fiction: Subterranean Online is serializing Daniel Abraham's "The Support Technician Tango".

At Information Week, Cory Doctorow explains why artists should worry less about piracy and more about how much it costs to publish online. "Artists are in the free expression business, and technology that helps free expression helps artists. When lowering the cost of copyright enforcement raises the cost of free speech, every artist has a duty to speak out."

James Nicoll lists the complete catalog of the Pocketbooks Timescape line of books.

Cynical-C points us to a a bunch of Star Wars geeks who made their own life-sized version of Jabba the Hutt.