SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 2/16/08

SF Tidbits for 2/16/08

David Niall Wilson interviews Sarah Monette, author of Mélusine and The Virtu : "Well, the first thing to remember is Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap. This applies across the board, to literary fiction (soi-disant) as much as genre fiction, but what tends to happen is that reviewers and critics will compare the 10% to the 90%: that is, the best of the literary fiction with the undistinguished mass of genre fiction. So, yeah, of course genre fiction comes off looking like pulp."

Fantasy Book Critic interviews David Keck, author of In the Eye of the Heaven and In a Time of Treason: "I'm a fool for world building. You have no idea..."

SCI FI Weekly interviews George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead and the new Diary of the Dead).

Jeff VanderMeer shows off the cover for his upcoming novel Predator: South China Sea.

Paul Jessup says fantasy has been sucking on the teet of SF for too long: "All the current ailing staticness of fantasy as a genre, stems from it being written by science fiction writers." Discuss...

Warren Ellis has Harlan Ellison writing about The WGA Strike Settlement, as only Harlan Ellison can: "You are their [bitc**s]. They outslugged you, outthought you, outmaneuvered you; and in the end you ripped off your pants, painted yer asses blue, and said yes sir, may I have another." [via SciFi Scanner]

SF Site lists their 2007 Readers' Choices for Best Read of the Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Knight Rider lists!
- Topless Robot lists The 10 Pre-KITT Knight Rider Inventions that Didn't Work (like the Rickshaw 2000).
- Little Fivers lists Things the New KITT Will Not Be Saying. (#9: "If you sing 'Jump in My Car' just once I swear I'll drive us into a Mack truck.")