SF Tidbits for 6/9/07

• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles David Anthony Durham, author of Acacia.
• Wired interviews David Brin. [via Biology in SF]
• NYT profiles Philip K. Dick. [via The Elephant's Bookshelf]
• Science Fiction Theater podcasts a classic CBS Radio Workshop featuring the classic Ray Bradbury stories “Season of Disbelief” and “Hail and Farewell”.
• L.E. Modesitt talks Standards in F&SF and Politics and asks “Why don’t people expect and demand the same degree of professionalism from their elected representatives [that they do from sf authors]?
• ABC will air episodes of Masters of Science Fiction in a four-week run starting Aug. 4.
• Time magazine tells us why Pixar is better.
• Tim Kring has signed a two-year deal with NBC that covers Kring’s involvement as executive producer on Heroes and Heroes: Origins. [via OnOurTV]
• Star Trek actors George Takei and Wil Wheaton and writer Andre Bormanis have teamed up with FanLib.com and CBS Interactive for Kirk vs. Picard, an event in which fans will be invited to write pieces of a new online Trek narrative. [via SciFi Wire]
• Alastair Reynolds has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog. (Sweet!) [via In Darkest Geekdom]

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