SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 3/14/08

SF Tidbits for 3/14/08

Salon interviews Harlan Ellison: "I have, I suppose, a very peculiar love-hate relationship with the human race. As a concept, the human race seems to be a very workable idea. When you get down to the individuals, most of them need a ball-peen hammer to the middle of their forehead to make them move even as a slow pony."

Simon Haynes (author of the Hal Spacejock series) Paul Melko (author of Sungularity's Ring)

Robert J. Sawyer posts a short interview he did regarding his book Mindscan.

At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Simon R. Green, author of The Unnatural Inquirer.

Cory Doctorow is podcasting the story he co-wrote with Benjamin Rosenbaum: "True Names" (an homage to Vernor Vinge's famous story).

Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: "The Woman Who Vowed" by Ellison Harding (1908).

The first 3 chapters of Nathalie Mallet's Arabian Nights-esque fantasy, The Princes of the Golden Cage, are now available as MP3 downloads. [via Night Shade Books]

Real Science: Bad Astronomy Blog lists Ten things you don't know about the Milky Way Galaxy.

The adaptation of the final Harry Potter book will be released as two films.

SciFi Scanner tells us that Wolfgang Peterson is set to direct Uprising, a movie whose plit sounds suspiciously close to Battlefield Earth. I read Battlefield Earth over a decade ago and I remember it being one of those books that was pretty good for the first half (until the antagonist died) and thereafter was page-by-page struggle to decide whether to stop reading it (when the plot moved from Terran rebellion against alien overlords to business dealing with shark bankers).