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• Actusf interviews Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream ).


• The latest The Future And You podcast features Jack McDevitt.


• The latest SF Site podcast reviews Frank Herbert's Dune.


• The December issue of Clarkesworld Magazine has free fiction by Tim Pratt and Brian Ames, Shaun Farrell's conversation with Vernor Vinge, Tobias Buckell interviewing Daniel Abraham, and features the art work of Ray Toh.


• Another free read: Webs of Discord by Jason Sizemore (Apex Publications editor-in-chief).


• Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: "Dead Giveaway" (1959) and "Despoilers of the Golden Empire" (1959) by Randall Garrett


• Short fiction review mag The Fix offers these interesting reads: Post-Cyberpunk's Moment in History: Remembering the 1990s and The Rise and Fall of Great Powers in Science Fiction.


• James Wallace Harris looks at The Science Fiction Event Horizon: "Regarding science fiction I believe that three things happen to speculative ideas. First, they can come true like submarines imagined by Jules Verne. Second, they will be discounted as impossible, like H. G. Wells idea of time travel or E. E. (Doc) Smith's theory of faster-than-light travel. Third, believers can be trapped inside of the SF Event Horizon always living with the speculation that their idea is true, like true believers of the first speculative theories, religion."


• Locus Online has posted the contents of Locus Magazine's January issue.


• The Colossus of Rhody looks at Time Travel in Star Trek: The Original Series.


• More 2007 Lists:
  • Aqueduct Press Blog has a huge assortment of "Best of 2007" lists from a variety of writers and critics. [via Boing Boing]
  • HorrorScope looks at the Best Horror of 2007. [via Articulate]
  • Andrew Wheeler lists his Favorite Books of the Year.
  • Paul Kincaid lists his best reads of 2007.
  • Rich Horton is looking back at sf/f magazines.
  • Biology in Science Fiction looks at The Year in Bioscience: 2007


• Science & Supermodels (bless their souls) reveals the best reason for space exploration in 2008: Alien Babes. Hellooooo 2008!

Share: | Posted by John on Wednesday January 02, 2008 - 12:05 AM | Category: Tidbits | © 2008 SF Signal

Third, believers can be trapped inside of the SF Event Horizon always living with the speculation that their idea is true, like true believers of the first speculative theories, religion."

Huh?

Either we will have Human grade AI in 10-15 years or we will not. It is not like global warming in which every hot august is the sign of our doom 50-100 years from now...we will see the singularity or not or get hit by a bus before hand.

Posted by joshua corning on Wednesday January 02, 2008 at 1:19 AM

The link for Paul Kincaid's list seems to be broken.

Posted by David on Wednesday January 02, 2008 at 6:42 AM

Thanks, Dave. Link fixed.

Posted by John on Wednesday January 02, 2008 at 6:56 AM

The United States is not coping particularly well with an enormous trade deficit (much of it with China), exceptional oil dependence, and decrepit infrastructure, among other problems.

"I am Edwards/Clinton/Obama and I approve of this message."

Posted by joshua corning on Wednesday January 02, 2008 at 9:46 PM