SF Tidbits for 3/22/07
By John DeNardo |
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at
12:18 am
- Chapter Feeds has the 1st chapter of Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber.
- The Art Department showcases the artwork of David Grove (including the cover of Gene Wolfe’s Pirate Freedom. Arrrr!), who will be inducted into the Illustrators’ Hall of Fame.
- Norman Spinrad discusses hard science fiction and accessibility of sf in his reviews of Peter Watts’ Blindsight and Mary Rosenblum’s Horizons. [via Geekend, who has something worthwhile to say about it.]
- Asimov’s, celebrating their 30th anniversary issue, also posts Robert Silverberg’s “Reflections” column and a combined editorial, including the first Asimov’s editorial ever by Isaac himself.
- FantasyBookspot interviews Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind, the first book of the The Kingkiller Chronicles trilogy.
- Matt Cheney’s Mumpsimus is SciFi Weekly’s site of the week.
- Cory Doctorow concludes the podcast of Eastern Standard Tribe.
- A gallery of science fiction pulp covers painted by British illustrator and comics artist Ron Turner for British pulp magazines in the 1950s. [via BoingBoing]
- More cool sci-fi art at Bldg Blog, where they talk about an upcoming film festival called called Science Fiction and the City.
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If you go to Baen Webscriptions, you can read the first 9 chapters from Off Armageddon Reef. More generally, you can read quite a few chapters from any Baen released book since 1999, and from various of their non-Baen releases (like the Liaden universe, the Niven-Pournelle Codominium series), and also from the books to be released soon that are available as e-arcs or Webscription serialization only right now.
http://www.webscription.net/chapters/0765315009/0765315009.htm
for OAR
http://www.webscription.net/
-find the book, bring it up, click on sample chapters and you are set
I haven’t bought the Webscription version of OAR as it is a non-Webscription price. Sorry, but I won’t pay hardcover or near-hardcover prices for electrons.
On the other hand, I have bought all of Mr. Weber’s Webscription releases from Baen. And buckets of other authors as well. But Tor doesn’t seem to “get it” on the price. I’ll pay for a hardcover if I want a book that will last a long time on my shelves, a collectible, etc. I will not pay hardcover prices for a electronic file!
You don’t even have to pay hardcover prices for the hardcover right now. “Off Armageddon Reef” is currently 50% off at Barnes and Noble.