SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 12/12/07

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]

Orbit books is posting The Science Fiction and Fantasy Twelve Days of Christmas, one post at a time.