SF Tidbits for 2/2/07

• Something to go along with yesterday’s TARDIS USB hub: The Dalek Webcam! [Thanks again, Tim!]
• Added to the list of sf/f authors who blog: Chris Dolley and Kristine Smith.
• Science tidbit: Some are questioning whether risk is a better marker than energy consumption for looking at possible extraterrestrial cultures. [Thanks, JP!] Meanwhile, Discover offers 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Aliens.
• Hyperpat’s HyperDay talks about The Heinlein Voice and why Heinlein is so readable. [via Core Dump]
• Cinematical asks: Who Should Be the New Barbarella?
• Cover Pr0n:
  • Pyr shows off their covers for Gradisil by Adam Roberts and Keeping It Real by Justina Robson.
  • Jonathan Strahan shows off the cover of the upcoming Best Short Novels: 2007.
  • Sean Wallace shows off the cover for Living Shadows by John Shirley.
• The latest episode of The Future And You features Elizabeth Bear, Walter Jon Williams and L.E. Modesitt Jr. [via Elizabeth Bear]
• SF Revu interviews author Charles Stross, Gollancz Editorial Director Simon Spanton and artist Brian W. Dow (who did the creepy-but-cool cover for Genetopia)
• The Sci Phi Show podcasts Paul Levinson’s “The Chronology Protection Case“. (See SF Signal’s review of the story.)
• Biology in Science Fiction looks at The Genetics of Heroes.

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