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SF Tidbits for 4/9/08

  • At B&N Review, Paul DiFilippo looks at the history of space opera through four novels: Space Vulture by Gary K. Wolf and John J. Myers, Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov, Earthblood by Keith Laumer, and The Ruby Dice the latest book in Catherine Asaro's Skolian Empire series. [via Locus Online]

  • Publishers Weekly has articles on alternate history, military SF, and Baen Books. [via Locus Online]

  • Free Fiction:

  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch posts her 1994 essay Confessions of an Editor. "I believe in the power of Fiction the way some people believe in the power of God."

  • Salon sheds some light on how Slaughterhouse Five was born, gleaned from Vonnegut's posthumous collection , Armageddon in Retrospect. [via Cynical-C Blog]

  • Here's Rolling Stone's 40th Anniversary interview with William Gibson. "I find myself less pessimistic than I sometimes imagine I should be."

  • Feminist SF rounds a nice collection of feminist sf links.

  • File 770 reminds Hugo voters that online voting will be available this year.

  • The latest edition of Stephen Euin Cobb's The Future And You podcast features Greg Bear, who talks about "nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, technological immortality, mind uploading, and why he disagrees with some of the expectations of Transhumanists, and most of the expectations of Singularitarians." But wait! There's more! Greag also discusses physics, string theory, life on extrasolar planets, the celebration of Yuri Gagarin's first human flight into space, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, how technology will change future battlefields, and how Russia seems to be heading back into the cold war.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday April 09, 2008 at 12:05 AM
© 2008 SF Signal

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Two problems with the Banks audiobook...one: it is for U.K. residents only; two: in order to download part two, you need to buy the print edition of the paper.

:-S

Posted by Fred Kiesche on Wednesday April 09, 2008 at 11:11 AM at 11:11 AM

That's a shame. Wasp Factory is a great book, the first I ever read of Banks and before I even knew he wrote science fiction.

Posted by Wes on Wednesday April 09, 2008 at 11:25 PM at 11:25 PM

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