SF Tidbits for 7/12/07

• Interzone magazine now has a presence in social networking sites MySpace and Facebook. [via Gareth L. Powell]
• Analyzing Dick: At Phillip K. Dick fan blog Total Dick-Head, David Gill plans to spend the summer blogging Dick’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.. Meanwhile, Erik Davis is examining the classic cover of Dick’s A Scanner Darkly. [via BoingBoing]
• At Geekend, Jay Garmon notices the beginnings of a strange Kennedy/Lincoln connection between John W. Campbell and Cordwainer Smith. Also worthy to note: awards bearing each one’s name were awarded this past weekend. [Insert spooky music jingle here.]
• Marvel comics has made issue #25 of Runaways available for free online reading. This issue begins a series written by by Joss Whedon and penciled by Michael Ryan. [via blog @ Newsarama]
• Blogzarro lists 4 Reasons Why the Wonder Twins Are Superior to the Transformers.
• Chris Roberson lists 10 Overlooked Classics.
• SciFi Chick lists her 13 Favorite Time Travelers from movies and TV.
• While tracking down the history of (genre) fiction, Charles at Bibliophile Stalker notes a difference between past and present writing.
• Tate Hallaway, Tobias Buckell and Lou Anders are featured in the latest Adventures in Scifi Publishing podcast.
• Elbakin.net interviews Orson Scott Card. [via Pat's Fantasy Hotlist]
• At Amazon Blog, Jeff VanderMeer has a quick chat with Kay Kenyon (Bright of the Sky).
• SciFi Wire talks about changes in Eureka season 2, Battlestar Galactica surprises. Also John Joseph Adams profiles Steph Swainston Dangerous Offspring.
• Alex Proyas (Dark City) will direct Dracula Year Zero.
• Time magazine reviews Harry Potter: Harry Potter Grows Older and Darker.
• Niall at Torque Control has a great post (sparking some really insightful comments as well) regarding online reviewing resulting from some discontent at the ReaderCon panel.
• Biology in Science Fiction points us to the essay “On the Implausibility of the Death Star’s Trash Compactor“.
• Free Readings in Science: The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems. [also via Biology in Science Fiction]
• Quasar Dragon points us to the video of Radar Men From the Moon – Chapter 1: Moon Rocket.
• Thursday YouTube: Richard Morgan and Ian McDonald in Conversation part one and part two.
• Attention ComCast customers: July is Sci-Fi Month and includes free shows and OnDemand movies. See Fifth Element, Gattaca and Starship Troopers in HD!

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