SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 2/19/08

SF Tidbits for 2/19/08

At Locus Online, Gary Westfahl reviews Jumper. He liked the book. The movie? Not so much...

At Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer interviews artist John Picacio and author J.M. McDermott.

Fantasybookspot interviews Charles Stross: "...the internet has conditioned us to multi-task, to the detriment of our ability to focus on any single activity. And it's taught a whole generation of kids that plagiarism is trivial and research is easy..."

Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: "The Soul Bottles" by Jay Lake (2004).

SciFi Scanner wants you to vote on your favorite special effects!

Subterranean Press offers a sneak peek at some of J.K. Potter's illustrations for Tim Powers' Fisher King Trilogy (consisting of Last Call, Expiration Date, and Earthquake Weather).

Peter @ Living the Liminal lists 10 Reasons Why He Hates the Movie Version of Stardust.

Real Science: New evidence suggests more than half the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way could have similar planetary systems.

Sci-Fi Fan Letter has a nice list of Urban Fantasy P.I.'s. Great for the "recommended if you like..." way of choosing books to read.

Here's a big directory of cult sf/horror movie posters.

I think that Stardust link is rather interesting. Ten points of bashing on a film that Gaiman actually worked on. It wasn't handed over to someone else and that was that (like the Dark Is Rising film). Gaiman had a hand in from the start...so really it's like a bashfest of Gaiman too since it is partly his movie vision.

Posted by SMD on Tuesday February 19, 2008 at 10:41 AM