SF Tidbits for 8/28/07

• Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Warlord of Mars is available as a free audiobook from LibriVox. There is also the free e-book version. [via Quasar Dragon]
• Neth Space has 5 quick questions for Jay Lake, author of Mainspring.
• Gareth L. Powell lists his 10 favorite short story collections (those written by a single author).
• Michale Swanwick shares an essay he write for a convention, Dinosaurs, Space Flight, and Science Fiction, in which he presents a short sketch of the three literary movements: Interstitial Arts, The New Weird and Mundane Science Fiction.
• James Patrick Kelly is podcasting his novel Look Into the Sun. Here’s Part 26.
• The Canadian SF&F Site offers tips on What To Do at an SF Convention. [via Books, Words, Writing]
• Michale Jasper points us to this Raleigh News and Observer book column article about speculative fiction, Eyes wide open, the first in a series of articles to guide the uninitiated genre reader.
• Amy Gahran is looking for a tool that will match specific types of sciences (dark matter, epigenetics) with a science fiction book that portrays it. Does anyone know of such a tool?
• From Scott Karp’s Publishing 2.0 article, Bookstores Begin Slow Descent Into Obsolescence: “The bookstore has been replaced by the Web as the place of wonder, and there’s no turning back.” Well…at least for business books… [via Bibliophile Stalker]
• You think you got it bad? Check out this Zombie Spiderman and Mary Jane Statue. [via Optical Popitude via Nerd Approved]
• School’s in! StarWars.com offers up a bunch of Star Wars Art Book Covers for the young ‘uns. [via Geek Sugar]
• Looking to learn a new language? Why not modern Kryptonian?
• The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester brought together 67 home-made Daleks in a bid to create a new world record and have the biggest number of people dressed up as Daleks in one location [via BoingBoing]

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