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• Most of us know Mervyn Peake as author of the Gormenghast novels. But did you know he was also an artist?


• Lou Anders points us to this brief Publishers' Weekly interview with "Science Fiction's New Prophet", Paolo Bacigalupi (Pump Six and Other Stories).


• SciFi Wire profiles Michael Knost, editor and publisher of the new online horror magazine Noctem Aeternus.


• Irene Gallo points us to Sidebar's podcast-interview with artist Jon Foster.


• Biology in Science Fiction excerpts an Science Fiction Studies interview with Octavia Butler (the Xenogenesis trilogy) on Biology and Behavior: "Some readers see me as totally sociobiological, but that is not true. I do think we need to accept that our behavior is controlled to some extent by biological forces. Sometimes a small change in the brain, for instance--just a few cells--can completely alter the way a person or animal behaves."


• I'm not sayin' I need more room for storing books, but for those who do, check out these Staircase Bookshelves and/or this house built for books. [via TexasBestGrok and ectoplasmosis]


• EVENT: Legendary author Michael Moorcock and World Fantasy Award-winning author John Picacio will be signing copies of Elric: The Stealer of Souls in Austin, TX this weekend.


• Slice of SciFi has the complete list of Saturn Awards nominees.


• SciFiDrive looks at Evolution of Science Fiction Cinema: The Early 20th Century.


• Scribd has a list of Top 15 Great Science Fiction Books.


• Here's a Flickr set of a steampunk Justice League. [via Boing Boing]

Share: | Posted by John on Thursday February 21, 2008 - 1:07 AM | Category: Tidbits | © 2008 SF Signal

"Most of us know Mervyn Peake as author of the Gormenghast novels. But did you know he was also an artist?"

Sure, ever since I first came across the Gormenghast books in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in the 1970's. Some of his art is featured in the books.

You might want to check out this site, run by Peake's son.

Posted by Fred Kiesche on Thursday February 21, 2008 at 2:42 PM