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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