SF Tidbits for 12/1/06

By John DeNardo | Friday, December 1st, 2006 at 12:16 am

Slate offers a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into a Battlestar Galactica script.
Added to the list of sf/f authors who blog: Eric Flint.
Sez Hawking: To survive as a species, mankind must travel to the stars.
Is there an economic answer to the Fermi Paradox?
New/Updated at Gutenberg: “Stop Look and Dig” by George O. Smith.
Cosmos Magazine has “The Dead Man’s Child” by Jay Lake. [via Locus Online]
Here’s a well-done fan film: The Art of the Saber. [via Writer's Blog]
Escape Pod has a podcast version of Mike Resnick’s Hugo-winning short story “Travels with my Cats“.
The December podcast of The Future And You is chock full of juicy stuff: an interview with Eric Flint (who talks about e-reading, Jim Baen’s Universe, the Baen free library and the short fiction market); a discussion on home schooling with Catherine Asaro; Toni Weisskopf (the new head of Baen Books) and her take on the singularity; eugenics with author/lawyer Marjorie M. Liu; David B. Coe on using nuclear power to solve energy problems…and more.
There’s a new genre-related group blog called No Fear of the Future. It’s run by genre authors Zoran Zivkovic’, Jess Nevins, Alexis Glynn Latner, Stephen Dedman, Chris Nakashima-Brown and Jayme Lynn Blaschke. [via Lou Anders]

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