SF Tidbits for 7/13/07

• SFX magazine now has a presence in the social networking site Facebook.
• SciFi Scanner points us to this sweet collection of The Classic Robots of Yesteryear. Man, that Einstein robot is creepy. Or is that Sam Elliot?
• Will Shetterly has released two of his books under a Creative Commons License: Dogland and The Gospel of the Knife. [via BoingBoing]
• Listen to Douglas Adams’ 1983 speech “Is there an artificial god?“. [also via BoingBoing]
• Wil Wheaton (at Suicide Girls blog) talks about post-apocalyptic SF and zombies. “As a longtime fan of these genres, I’m happy, but not thrilled, that we’re starting to see apocalyptic fiction hit the mainstream. I say “not thrilled” because when things like this hit the mainstream, the good stuff gets marginalized, while the majority tends to become guilty pleasures like The Omega Man, moderately entertaining efforts like Jericho, or full-on suckfests like the Resident Evil movie…”[via John Joseph Adams]
• Karen Miller (The Innocent Mage) has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog. Karen is also posting a series of interviews with female fantasy authors beginning with Glenda Larke Heart of the Mirage. [via Orbit Books Blog]
• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles David Marusek, whose collection Getting to Know You is a finalist for this year’s Quill Awards.
• Over at Wyrdsmiths, Kelly McCullough talks about The Implicit Contract Between Author and Reader. “If the author wants to write an SF story with magical elements, then the magic had better be shown to exist very very early in the story and there will have to be a scientific explanation (even if it’s just handwaving) somewhere in the story.”
• Behold: DThompson’s List Of Ten Books He’d Make Into Movies If I Had A Skijillion Dollars.
• Your3DSource lists The World’s First Computer Animation And Effects In Film. [via Look at This]
• SciFi Fashion, Part 1: Neat-o-rama shows us this Darth Vader Backpack from ThinkGeek.
• SciFi Fashion, Part 2: Fanboy stumbles upon a Blade Runner Umbrella from ThinkGeek.
• Ian Hubert over at Robot Soup has created a short animation in which a Ninja robot slices Firefly‘s Serenity in half. [via yowhatsupdog]

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2. SF Tidbits for 3/18/06
3. SF Tidbits for 4/26/07
4. SF Tidbits for 9/9/06
5. SF Tidbits for 6/20/07

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