SF Tidbits for 12/15/07

• There are two more posters for The Dark Knight. Both are cooler than the first, methinks.
• Charles Stross writes about Robert Heinlein at Penguin blog and mentions his upcoming Heinlein tribute novel, Saturn’s Children. “I never met Mr. Heinlein, but I’ve felt his ghost breathing down my neck periodically, ever since I began writing science fiction. And I must admit, I resent it.”
• Solaris Books announced that they will be publishing three Bengal Station novels to be written by Helix author Eric Brown. Necropath, Xenopath and Cosmopat features a telepath working at spaceport on Bengal Station, a vast twenty-level city-port, to read the minds of visitors to Earth in order to ferret out terrorists. Necropath is slated for a Spring 2009 release.
• Amazon has purchased J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard at an auction held by Sotheby’s in London. The book, one of seven in existence, is referenced in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The purchase price was £1,950,000, or as we say in America: “A butt-load of money.” [via #comments]
• The Washington Post lists Great Sci Fi for People Who Think They Don’t Like Sci Fi. Short version: Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Good suggestions in the comments, too.
• Dragonriders of Pern is headed to the movies. [via Beam Me Up]
• More from Penguin: A brief roundup of some of their fantasy authors.
• John Joseph Adams will appear on NPR today talking about I Am Legend.
• Stephen Hunt of SF Crowsnest has a two-book deal with Tor.
• Kaza Kingsley (the Erec Rex series) has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.
• Recently-free fiction at ManyBooks.net: “Talents, Incorporated” by Murray Leinster (1962) and “Fearful Symmetry” by Ann Wilson (1992)
• Marooned lists Clifford D. Simak’s Mars-related short fiction.
• Jim Hill Media has an exhaustive list of Pixar self-references. Way cool.
• Discover magazine lists 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Aliens.
• /Film looks at 30 Years of LucasFilm Christmas Cards. Funny: Yoda as Santa. Ridiculous: C3P0 as Santa. Painful: Ewok as Santa.
• In case anyone is wondering what to get you for the holidays, point them in the direction of Illusion TV’s Retro Sci-Fi Buying Guide. You’ll thank me.
• [Cue mechanical Black Sabbath voice] I…am…LegoMan…

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