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• Interviews:
  • SFFWorld get all interviewy with James Barclay and Alastair Reynolds
  • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction interviews Steven Utley about his story "The 400-Million-Year Itch".
  • At Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer interviews Jim C. Hines (The Snort-Fest Trilogy).
  • io9 interviews Jane Espenson, who has written episodes of Firefly and Battlestar Galactica.
  • PDF 'zine Journey Planet interviews John Scalzi, who talks about Fan Hugos. [via Science Fiction Awards Watch]


• George R. R. Martin will be on B&N Book Club's Center Stage on April 14-18. [via Grasping for the Wind, who has more details]


• Sez Times Online: Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing. Meanwhile, Guardian Book Blog asks: "Will online breaches of copyright kill the printed book - or bring it to a new audience?"


• Free Fiction:
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    • "Man Made" by Albert Teichner (1960)
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• Speaking of Star Wars, here's what Darth Vader does on summer vacation.


• Design blog Abduzeedo looks at Cool Science Fiction Posters.


• Solar Flare returns after a year-long hiatus from blogging. Welcome back, Eoghann!


• Chris Roberson takes us to Bob Clampett's John Carter of Mars.


• Stranger than Truth lists The Top 10 Animated Science Fiction Characters.


• Either it's April Fool's day or Ann and Jeff VanderMeer are editing an anthology called Squidpunk!


• The 30th Anniversary Issue of fanzine File 770 is out. SF Signal gets a mention as a "high-energy" blog. Oh great...now we have to live up to that claim. (I kid! Thanks, Mike! )

Share: | Posted by John on Tuesday April 01, 2008 - 12:15 AM | Category: Tidbits | © 2008 SF Signal

Great post!

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Posted by Shelah on Tuesday April 01, 2008 at 1:29 AM

What? No Futurama characters in that top ten list? For shame!

Posted by E_I on Tuesday April 01, 2008 at 9:47 AM

Thanks for the welcome back shout out

Hopefully I'll be able to pace myself better and stick around for a while this time.

Posted by Eoghann Irving on Tuesday April 01, 2008 at 4:44 PM

Loved the Alastair Reynolds interview at SFFWorld. I totally agree with the sentiment that Greg Bear is wasting his talents on those near-future technothrillers.

Posted by J.B. on Friday April 04, 2008 at 12:00 PM