SF Tidbits for 4/17/07
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 at
1:07 am
- Cormac McCarthy, whose novel The Road was recently chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her book club, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A special citation went to Ray Bradbury for his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy.
- New site discovery: Fanboy.com! Check out this recent post of an excerpt from The Science Fiction Book: An Illustrated History, Why There is No Sex in Science Fiction.
- Stan Nicholls received a lifetime achievement award.
- SFX interviews Alastair Reynolds.
- The Sci Phi Show Outcast #37 has a podcast interview with Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Today marks the 10th anniversary of Locus Online, run by Mark Kelly.
- Graham Sleight’s “Yesterday’s Tomorrows” column from Locus Magazine looks at classic works by Frederik Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth.
- GalleyCat has a poll similar to ours this week: Free Books on the Download?
- SFF Audio points us to the Zombie Astronaut website (love the name) who, in turn, points us to two audio versions of Fritz Leiber’s classic short story “A Pail Of Air“.
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No sex if SF? Obviously hasn’t read Friday, or Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein! Woo-boy!
Let alone “Tower of Glass” and others by Silverberg. Or “Dhalgren” and a ton of stuff by Delany. And much more!
I’m trying to recall an old short story I thought was by Bradbury… Maybe you can help me?
The setting was of course Mars, but Humans and Martians were coexisting. Come to find out, Martians have kept a great secret, they can see electricity, traveling through wires etc.. A human finds out and convinces a Martian to perform a specail procedure that allows him (the Human) to see electricity as well. The only catch being that the ability will only last a short time. The procedure is a success. The Human stares in wide eyed wonder at a world he has never really seen. Then it’s all over and his ability is lost. As I recall it ends rather badly with the human either going insane or killing himself.
But I just can’t remember the title and I’m not 100% that it was Bradbury.
It’s driving me crazy!!!
Help,
mtpercy