SF Tidbits for 9/25/06
By John DeNardo |
Monday, September 25th, 2006 at
12:29 am
- Posthuman Blues lists Ten of the best science fiction/fantasy novels you’ve never read. And ten more!
- Lou Anders adds his response to Cory Doctorow’s Locus article How Copyright Broke.
- The Agony Column podcasts Charles Stross. [via Locus Online]
- SciFi Weekly reviews the latest permutation of the Star Wars DVDs. Rating: A-.
- “Paying tribute to the classic Italian science fiction mega-movies”: The Spaghetti SciFi Shrine.
- John C. Wright talks about Separation of Church and Spaceship (Part 5).
- The latest Emerald City features a WorldCon report and a dissection of the Hugos.
- Paper dolls go digital: Dress up your favorite sci-fi stars: Brandon Routh (Superman), David Tennant and Billie Piper (Doctor Who), Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and (are you paying attention, Pete?) Kate Beckinsale. [via MonkeyFilter]
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“The Agony Column podcasts Charles Stross.” In case you weren’t aware, Apple is suing websites that use the term “podcast.” The recommended, safer, brand-free alternative is “audcast.”
Posthuman blues lists TITUS GROAN as one of the best SF books never read. Oh, my aching back. GROAN is hardly SF, and it is included in the fantasy field only because, when it was written, fantasy was so small a field that anything even slightly odd might end up being included.
And the book is terrible: dreary, overwritten, plotless, pointless. If I could have back the hours I spent plowing the barren sands of this barren book, it would be only justice.
Lou Anders asks if Apple operates the iTunes Music Store as a loss leader for its iPod products. The answer is apparent to anyone who has done any competitive analysis. If anything, it’s the other way around: a lot of people are wondering if there is *any* margin in the iPod Nano whatsoever. There’s boatloads of margin in every DRM-protected song download.