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• Spinning a thread from his Why YA? post, John Scalzi asks Who Lost Scott Westerfeld? to address Paul Di Filippo's comment about an author's young adult book replacing the adult title he could have written in its place. Sez Scalzi: "The reason we might not see another Evolution's Darling from Scott has almost nothing to do with the fact he's successfully writing YA, and quite a lot to with the fact that adult SF/F didn't make it worth his time to continue in the field." Oh great...now I have this incredible urge to go box-diving for Evolution's Darling...


• Speaking of young adult, Brian Selznick's YA novel/graphic-novel Hugo Cabret is headed for the big screen.


• Interviews and profiles:
  • The Age interviews Neil Gaiman who talks about the influence of graphic novels: "Gaiman has a few theories about why the genre no longer remains on the fringe. 'I think we have a generation that's visually sophisticated and familiar with comic-book language.'" [via Bookninja]
  • ISEEE-USA Today's Engineer interviews Mike Resnick, Robert J. Sawyer, and Lawrence Watt-Evans. [via Locus Online]
  • Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews interviews John Joseph Adams, editor of the anthologies Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse and the forthcoming Seeds of Change.
  • SFX interviews Richard Baker, author of Swordmage.
  • The Future And You talks with Katherine Kurtz
  (the Deryni Series series).


• Chris Roberson shares the John Picacio covers of the Star Trek: Myriad Universes omnibuses, one of which contains his Star Trek novel, Brave New World.


• Locus Online Features posts Cory Doctorow's latest article Think Like a Dandelion: "The net is an unending NOW of moments and distractions and wonderments and puzzlements and rages. Asking someone riding its currents to undertake some kind of complex dance before she can hand you her money is a losing proposition."


• The Blog of the Zombie Astronaut has posted the audio for one of those "choose your own adventure" type books called Vampires, Spies and Alien Beings. A little hard to follow without the book, of course, but fans of such nostalgia won't care.


• James Nicoll points us to this Solar System Visualizer that let's you see planetary orbits around the sun and the orbits of the moons around the planets.


• Time Out London revisits The Matrix - ten years later. [via Shadowrunning]


• Topless Robot offers us a peek at The Dark Knight's Two-Face. Waaaaay better than the Tommy Lee Jones version.

Share: | Posted by John on Wednesday May 07, 2008 - 12:06 AM | Category: Tidbits | © 2008 SF Signal

Thank you for the mention, John. And keep up the good work.

Posted by Dark Wolf on Wednesday May 07, 2008 at 4:16 AM

Time Out London needs a remedial math lesson: 2008 - 1999 = 9 years, not 10!

Posted by Chris Johnston on Wednesday May 07, 2008 at 6:42 AM

@Chris: They must be talking about Matrix-years.

Posted by John on Wednesday May 07, 2008 at 8:10 AM