SF Tidbits for 7/25/07
- Dark Horse is preparing a re-issue of the Gor books by John Norman (pen name of John Frederick Lange) [via GalleyCat]
- Yatterings interviews Peter F. Hamilton (The Dreaming Void). [via Big Dumb Object]
- At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Peter David, author of Darkness of the Light.
- EcoGeek interviews Tobias Buckell.
- SF Signal Oversight-of-the-Week: Peter Watts has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog. [Thanks John Markley]
- Grumpy Old Bookman talks about literary snobbery.
- From Time: In 1976, French sci-fi buff Pierre Versin donated his collection of tens of thousands of science-fiction books to the Swiss spa town of Yverdon-les-Bains [...] on the condition that it be made available for public viewing.
- The Guardian has some post-Potter fiction recommendations. Jim C. Hines points us to a similar thread on LiveJournal. Hmmm...what a great idea!
- Chris Roberson talks about public domain superheroes.
- Over at Tangent, Carole Ann Moleti looks at the Hugo short-fiction nominees.
- The Avacado of Death (why are all the good names taken?) pie-charts the source publications of Hugo and Nebula winners for Best Short Story from 1991-2006. [via James Nicoll]
- Rudy Rucker goes medieval on Mundane SF. "I don't think SF is necessarily about predicting possible futures. I've always felt that SF is more like surrealism. The idea is to shock people into awareness." [via Kathryn Cramer]
- Web comic XKCD takes on the bookstore.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday July 25, 2007 at 12:03 AM
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While, IMO, the first GOR book is okay, the series devolves into, for lack of a better term, sexual politics far too quickly to be enjoyable except by Goreans.
Posted by Paul on Wednesday July 25, 2007 at 7:10 AM
