SF Tidbits for 9/24/07

• The winners of the 2007 British Fantasy Awards have been announced. [via UKSF Book News]
• Matt Hughes will be giving away 50 signed copies of his books, plus three of the Night Shade limited editions. Watch his website, Archonate for details.
• More Hughes news: CBC Radio’s interview with Matt Hughes.
• SFX interviews P.J. Haarsma (Softwire). “I only see a few people in publishing embracing the purchasing habits and lifestyles of young adult readers. I hear the industry complaining that people don’t read anymore, especially boys (which tells me they’ve never seen a teenage boy pouring over a video game manual or cheat code magazine). It’s a crutch they use instead of thinking outside of the box to get new readers.”
• Julio Angel Ortiz interviews Keith R.A. DeCandido (Resident Evil: Extinction). “There are significant differences between fanfic and profic–not least being that fanfic is much more free-form and flexible in terms of format and plot and structure.”
• Groupee podcast-interviews Jay Lake.
• Gregory Frost talks about the writing process in his post Plots and Process and Samuel R. Delany. “Like the notion that by observing an experiment you affect the experiment, so too the act of writing down the imagined events changes them forever.”
• John Picacio previews the artwork he did for an upcoming set of Star Trek books.
• Adam Roberts shows off the cover of Swiftly, a new novel that spins off from the stories set in the Gulliver’s Travels universe that were in a previous story collection.
• Lou Anders shows off the cover of his upcoming anthology Sideways in Crime.
• SFX Blog has the contents of SFX issue #162, which features Milo Ventimiglia (Peter from Heroes) on the cover.
• Here are 10 reasons why Paul Levinson is looking forward to the return of Heroes.
• The LA Times profiles John Barrowman (Capt. Jack on Torchwood).
• Lifeboat Foundation lists the Top 10 Transhumanist Technologies.
• Marilyn Manson wants to be cast in the “Spider-man” musical. No, really. [via SF-Fandom]
• Fanboy points us to this Ultraman Toy Collection.

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