SF Tidbits for 6/22/07
By John DeNardo |
Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at
12:11 am
- Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights (released in the U.S. as The Golden Compass) has been named the best children’s book of the past 70 years.
- Fantasybookspot interviews John Twelve Hawks, author of The Traveler (awesome book, review coming soon!) and the sequel, The Dark River. [via Locus Online]
- USA Today profiles Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will Be Invincible.
- Intergalactic Medicine has a free fiction preview by Orson Scott Card: “A Young Man with Prospects“. [via Locus Online]
- Free Geekery offers The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Becoming a (Real) Cyborg.
- James Patrick Kelly is podcasting his novel Look Into the Sun. Here’s Part 18.
- How Paul Levinson went face-to-screen with Jack Thompson.
- Real Science: Larry Ketchersid (Dusk Before the Dawn) compares Quantum vs. Classical Computing.
- Wiz Kids Games is giving out coupons for free Star Wars Pocket Models.
- Q: How did the Star Wars fanboy cross the road? A: By pushing a Star Wars AT-AT baby stroller. [via Thingamababy]
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I have got to get one of those AT-AT strollers for my nephew!
How many points would that be worth on the superfan scale? Get yer ubergeeks started early!
I wouldn’t have picked Pullman for the best children’s book in the past 70 years. I barely got through it, myself. No “Cricket in Times Square”? No “Stuart Little”? No Madeline L’Engle? No Lloyd Alexander?
Best book in the last 70 years? Oh please! Where do I go to throw up?
>> Where do I go to throw up?
On George Lucas’ porch?
(There’s no reason to waste a perfectly good vomitting on Pullman when there’s so much prequel hate still hanging around…)
Woo hoo! New John Twelvehawks novel.
A correction – Orson Scott Card’s story is not free, but is part of the 4th issue of IGMS. There’s a free preview, but to read the whole story, you need to buy the issue.
ScottD: Thanks! Updated.
Hey. I’m the SF Signal “Real Science” geekboy! Woo hoo!
Also, just finished The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks. It was good, but I did not enjoy it as much as the first one.
A weaker sequel? Unheard of ! :O
Just make sure you don’t fall into that apparent norm.