SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 12/14/07

SF Tidbits for 12/14/07

Fantasybookspot interviews Paul Kearney (The Ten Thousand): "I don't think epic fantasy has stagnated - far from it. It may have been close to sinking into a quicksand of cliché a few years back, but times have changed radically. Writers like Joe Abercrombie and Steve Erikson have given it a good hard kick up the ass, which was exactly what it needed. Now if only the prejudice against fantasy books with slighter thinner spines could be overcome, then we'd really be going places. The spectre of Tolkien still looms too large."

Ray Bradbury wrote a play for Pasadena called "The Invisible Boy" about "a manipulative old woman who is searching for companionship and tries to adopt a relative as her son. In exchange, the boy gets to be invisible, but things don't work out quite the way they're planned."

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