SF Tidbits for 9/18/07

• Free Fiction, Part 1: Karl Schroeder has released his first novel, Ventus, as a free eBook under the Creative Commons License.
• Free Fiction, Part 2: Radar Online publishes a new Cory Doctorow story, “Scroogled“, which answers the question, “What if Google were evil?”
• Free Fiction, Part 3: New from ManyBooks.net…”The Vortex Blaster” by E. E. “Doc” Smith: “He did not know, he did not even suspect, that under certain conditions of atmospheric potential and of ground-magnetic stress his perfectly designed lightning-rod system would become a super-powerful magnet for flying vortices of atomic disintegration.”
• SciFi Weekly interviews Naomi Novik, author of Empire of Ivory, book 4 in the Temeraire series. “Being a geek in certain ways is about having deep passions in weird areas and being able to follow them. That is very much what I am.”
• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Brian Ruckley, author of Winterbirth.
• Cinematical has the official one-sheet poster for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
• Mansquito 29, here I come! FilmFlap shows us How to Write a Movie for the Sci-fi Channel in Six Easy Steps.
• BoingBoing Gadgets points us to Star Wars slot machines seen in a Las Vegas airport.
• Photographer (and apparent Photoshopper) Cédric Delsaux has posted a gallery of Star Wars characters in urban settings. [via Big Dumb Object]
• Here’s a huge photo of the Milky Way as seen from Death Valley. [via Reddit]
• Todd Klein has a five part series on the progression of the Batman logo. [via Blog@Newsarama]

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