SF Tidbits for 8/19/07
By John DeNardo |
Sunday, August 19th, 2007 at
12:05 am
- Free Speculative Fiction Online adds links to new fiction by Cordwainer Smith, Edmond Hamilton, Mike Resnick, Harry Harrison, Gene Wolfe, Charles de Lint, Joe R. Lansdale, David Drake, Steven Utley, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick & Barbara Lamar, Walt Willis & Bob Shaw, Gareth L. Powell.
- SFF Audio finds two pieces of free audio fiction, both written by (and read by) by John Kessel: “A Clean Escape” (source story for an episode of The Masters of Science Fiction) and “Some Like It Cold“.
- Jason Stoddard has released his novel Winning Mars on his website for free under a Creative Commons license. [via Jason Erik Lundberg]
- The Art Department looks at the Jon Foster’s cool artwork for Timothy Zahn’s Dragonback series.
- At Locus Online, Gary Westfahl reviews The Invasion, the latest adaptation of Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney.
- MWB World looks at media tie-ins and manages to make a connection between Space: 1999 and Family Affair.
- List Universe list Top 15 Great Science Fiction Books. Many of the usual suspects…
- SF for vegetarians, or vegans as the case may be… (Is it me or is that whole thing like Trekkers avoiding the Trekkie label?) Check out this awesome rendering of H.R. Giger’s alien constructed from vegetables. [via Fazed]
- Finally, an answer to the question: What do you get when you cross The Terminator with Cthulhu? The Cthulhinator! [via Raincoaster]
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The fact that Sebastian Cabot (Mr. French in Family Affair) was not in more SF movies and TV is the genre’s loss. At least he was in one awesome episode of the Twilight Zone.