SF Tidbits for 12/01/07

• Variety SF takes a detailed look at Hal Clement’s Mission of Gravity (1953).
• George Takei will have a cameo role in Star Trek XI.
• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Tim Pratt, author of Blood Engines.
• Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist interviews the writers of Wild Cards: Inside Straight. (George R.R. Martin, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Carrie Vaughn, Caroline Spector, Ian Tregillis, S. L. Farrell, Daniel Abraham, John Jos. Miller, Michael Cassutt.)
• Over at The Fix, Michael A. Stackpole Talks About Second Life.
• Jo Walton looks at SF and the human condition: “SF lets you talk about the human condition more widely and from different angles by contrasting it with the alien condition and the AI condition and the android condition, but really, the readers and writers are human.”
• Beanjockey traces How Antimatter Got into Science Fiction.
• India’s Tehelka has an excellent article on the history and state of Indian science fiction. [via Boing Boing]
• Wil Wheaton is looking for short fiction anthology recommendations. My pick: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1 edited by Robert Silverberg. Hands down, the best anthology in existence. But then, I likes the classics…

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