SF Tidbits for 4/18/07

• Time magazine’s Lev Grossman looks at the “new” Tolkien novel The Children of Húrin
• At Subterranean Press, Mike Resnick talks about his creation, Lucifer Jones.
• SF Diplomat answers a couple of remarks about genre reviewing.
• Tower.com interviews John Scalzi, author of The Last Colony.
• Douglas E. Cohen interviews Jay Lake about editing. [via SFBC Blog]
• The Sci Phi Show podcast-interviews Cory Doctorow.
• In the article Swords vs. lightsabers, Kristin Thompson notes that the current popularity of fantasy films was once the held by sci-fi cinema.
• Jamie Rubin examines why he writes science fiction. “Nearly 15 years have passed and I am still writing science fiction and I am proud of it.”
• The Space Review continues profiling the life of a grandmaster. Read Heinlein’s Ghost, Part 1 and Part 2.
• The Oxford University Press blog looks at Expletives & Profanity in Science Fiction (an excerpt from Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction edited by Jeff Prucher).
• Chris Roberson has The Airship Link-o-the-Week: Zeppy the pedal-powered airship. I’ll put this one list of things I want, right after my jetpack.

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