SF Tidbits for 8/18/07

• Karl Schroeder gives us a sneak peek at The Sunless Countries, the 4th book in his Virga series (after Sun of Suns, Queen of Candesce, and Pirate Sun).
• John Scalzi interviews Tobias Buckell.
• The Alternate Reality webzine has Q&A with Matthew Hughes. [via Locus Online]
• Two (count ‘em) pieces of free fiction by Gordon Randall Garrett and Laurence Mark Janifer: The Impossibles and Supermind.
• Prehistoric Pulp lists some free paleo-stories on the web.
• Elizabeth Moon has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.
• Lou Anders has posted the tentative (and quite impressive) table of contents for his anthology Sideways in Crime: An Alternate Mystery.
• David Louis Edelman offers A Guide to Ethical Self-Promotion.
• Tangent is conducting a major SF/F/H survey for all U.S. original short fiction markets, collecting such information as pay rates, number of stories published in 2007 and word counts.
• Cameo Wood has put together an Amazon list of Science Fiction that takes place in San Francisco. [via Whump]
• One for fantasy fans; Andrew Wheeler takes issue with the supposed “changing of the guard” of fantasy fiction.
• NPR podcast-interviews Seth Green, the mastermind behind Robot Chicken. They talk about Star Wars, directing George Lucas and even mention the Sleestaks in the Library bit.
• WorstPreviews has a bat-load of pics from The Dark Knight, the sequel to Batman Begins. [via Empire]
• Big Blog of Cheese points us to a Firefly video using a Rodeohead soundtrack…Rodeohead being a country version of the band Radiohead.
• Top5 SciFi lists Things Overheard on a Sci-Fi Cooking Show. “10. TAKE YOUR PAWS OFF MY BANANA NUT MUFFINS, YOU DAMN DIRTY APES!”

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