SF Tidbits for 12/12/07
- Grasping for the Wind interviews John Joseph Adams (Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse). "...post-apocalyptic fiction seems to be part of the zeitgeist right now. I mean, you've got Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road not only winning the Pulitzer Prize, but appearing as an Oprah Book Club selection! If that's not a sign of the apocalypse, I don't know what is."
- This I Believe has Robert A. Heinlein reading his essay Our Noble, Essential Decency. "I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb--this animal barely up from the apes--will endure, will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets--to the stars and beyond--carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage, and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart." [via Locus Online]
- Penguin continues its look at the sub-genres of speculative fiction with this post on Military SF.
- Here's a 2006 Guardian article beginning a series on how to read a book. [via Hipster Book Club]
- Real Science: Hey! Who the heck squashed my solar system?
- Orbit books is posting The Science Fiction and Fantasy Twelve Days of Christmas, one post at a time.
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| Posted by John on Wednesday December 12, 2007 - 12:08 AM
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| © 2007 SF Signal
Thanks for the link. This was one of the most fun interviews I have done to date.
Posted by John(GraspingfortheWind) on Wednesday December 12, 2007 at 7:11 AM

Did someone say "Poxyclypse?"
Posted by tditto on Thursday December 13, 2007 at 10:40 AM