SF Tidbits for 2/17/07

By John DeNardo | Saturday, February 17th, 2007 at 12:04 am

Sci Fi Wire Interviews Ann VanderMeer, new fiction editor of Weird Tales.
Paul Levinson has a new home on the Internet.
Links to online versions of the 2006 Preliminary Nebula Award nominees have been updated thanks to Jon Joseph Adams posting the F&SF stories online.
SF Site interviews Ken MacLeod, author of The Execution Channel.
SCI FI Wire profiles L.E. Modesitt, author of The Elysium Commission.
The Guardian has a quickie interview with Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy. [via Kid's Lit]
Sigourney Weaver has signed on for James Cameron’s Avatar. [via Geek Monthly]
From 1999: David Brin asks: Why is George Lucas peddling an elitist, anti-democratic agenda under the guise of escapist fun?
Free audio fiction: SFF Audio podcasts the Robert Silverberg’s 1972 story “{Now + n, Now – n}“.
Locus Online has compiled a directory of 2006 books arranged by book editor, as a source of information for Hugo Awards nominators in this first year of the new “Editor – Long Form” category. Also: Deadline for Hugo nominations is March 3, 2007. [via Locus Online]
File under: Kids don’t know how good life is. I wish my high school English class included reading Tom Godwin’s “Cold Equations” and James Patrick Kelly’s “Think Like a Dinosaur” back to back.
BBT Blog performs a public service by warning of A Global Threat to the Human Race. Watch out, Ripley!

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