SF Tidbits for 4/30/07
By John DeNardo |
Monday, April 30th, 2007 at
12:40 am
- A set of first edition books of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy sold for $2,300. Wow!
- Talking Squid tells us why fanfic makes us stupid.
- Check out The Villanizer, a Steampunk Guitar. [via VCTB]
- Locus Online has posted the contents of the May 2007 issue of Locus magazine.
- James Patrick Kelly is podcasting his novel Look Into the Sun. Here’s Part 12.
- File under: I Can’t Believe This is the First Time I’ve Seen This: The Science Fiction Story of the Day website which offers free fiction online daily.
- Odyssey SF/F Writing Workshop podcasts Robert J. Sawyer talking about point of view in fiction.
- Finally…a label to attach to the people blocking the bookstore aisles: Manga Hoboes!
- Cory Doctorow reads from his forthcoming (May 2008) young adult novel, Little Brother, about San Francisco hacker kids who fight back against the Department of Homeland Security.
- Slice of SciFi interviews Morena Baccarin who played Inara in Firelfy and Serenity. [via Whedonesque]
- Iain Banks next Culture novel is titled Matter. [via James @ Big Dumb Object, who also has a report from Alt.Fiction 2007]
- Get it before it’s yanked! Funny video for Monday: An SNL skit that lacked the cajones to be called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Bone. (YouTube has already pulled this, as it were.) Speaking of The Harry Potter Outreach Program…HEL-lo!
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- SF Tidbits Part XXXV
- The Top 200 Best Selling Book of 2005
- SF Tidbits for 3/29/07
- SF Tidbits for 4/4/07
- SF Tidbits for 2/5/07
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