SF Tidbits for 9/27/06
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 at
7:12 am
UPDATED: WIth link to EW BG Story.
- Jonathan Strahan shows off the cool Stephan Martinere cover for The New Space Opera, the anthology he is editing with Gardner Dozois.
- Meme Therapy asks about Science Fiction Ethical Dilemmas (Part 1).
- Mel Brooks talks about the animated Spaceballs.
- ComingSoon.net has some Harry Potter 5 pics.
- New at Gutenberg: Ullr Uprising by H. Beam Piper
- Ah! Now I see the link between science fiction and wrestling.
- Two Cordwainer Smith stories online: “The Dead Lady of Clown Town” and “Under Old Earth“, Baen samples from the collection We the Underpeople [via Paul Jessup]
- This week’s Entertainment Weekly (with the Battlestar Galactica cover story) reviews Neil Gaiman’s story collection Fragile Things and gives it a B+.
- An upcoming limited-edition hardcover of Christopher Paolini’s best-seller Eldest will feature an excerpt of the as-yet-unnamed book 3 in the Inheritance trilogy.
- Jennifer Fallon lists The 51 sub-genres of speculative fiction as pulled from an online bookstore.
- Star Wars Duel of the Fates…Simpson’s style! [via Club Jade via TFN]
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- SF Tidbits Part LVII
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Weird. The book is “Uller Uprising” and I’ve never seen another spelling. I’ll have to see if I can trace the magazine publication and find if Piper changed the spelling for the book.
On Cordwainer Smith, I’d recommend a look at NESFA’s short story collection and novel by Smith. You’ll get all the known Instrumentality tales (and some extras besides) that way. You pay more (they are hardcovers), but the Baen isn’t as complete as the NESFA editions.
It does, I think, have a lovely Bob Eggleton cover, though.
On Ullr: Yeah, I thought so to. I think my copy (buried under stacks of other books I’ll never get to read) is has the “e”. I went by the pictures in the link, though. Go figure.
The copy I have is Uller Uprising, but maybe they simply have a spelling error on the site. I say Fred should head over there and smackle them repeatedly.
I’m gonna smackle you if you don’t learn your spellin’!
Looks like we’re dealing with a magazine serial spelling. A few sites list it as “Ullr” and cite an appearance with that spelling in Volume 3, Number 4 and Number 5 of “Space Science Fiction” in the UK in 1953.
Of course, one could theorize that Piper had a typewriter with a broken “e” and had to construct an entire story without using that letter…
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