SF Tidbits for 1/30/08
- And the Reuter's says....Ender's Game is becoming a video game. [via The Swivet]
- SciFi Wire profiles author/artist Wayne Barlowe (God's Demon).
- Speculative Horizons interviews John Marco (Skylords and The Black Mirror): "The idea of technological elements in a fantasy world always juices me up....[I] love the anachronism of a knight on a horse leading a mechanical war machine into battle..."
- Paul Di Filippo reviews Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan, A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, The Sunrise Lands by S.M. Stirling, and Eclipse One edited by Jonathan Strahan. [via Locus Online]
- The Unshelved web comic has an episode that reviews Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself.
- Free Audio Fiction: James Patrick Kelly has begun podcasting his Nebula-nominated story "Men Are Trouble".
- The SFWA is setting up a new Nebula Award website.
- Meanwhile, SFWA Blog lists 98 Reasons to Join SFWA.
- Would you believe a woman is planning on opening a real, live physical independent bookstore? In this day and age? The gall!
- [via Quillblog]
- TTACon 9 is being held in London on February 9. Special guests include Ellen Datlow, Pat Cadigan, John & Judith Clute. Bonus: the venue is a place called "Filthy MacNastys".
- io9 List Mania #1: Five Bollywood Science Fiction Movies You Should Know.
- io9 List Mania #2: Five Ways 9/11 Changed Science Fiction. Stone Dead Parrot responds.
- In a three part series, Books Under the Bridge looks at The Future of Religion: "Science-fiction -- real science-fiction -- is in my opinion about people, about the interaction of science, technology, and human culture. Science-fiction is speculative anthropology (see Ursula K. Le Guin, for example). So what does science-fiction have to say about religion? Apparently, nothing."
- According this Math Major, The Trouble With Science Fiction is it's "all too frequently just about the science, never the fiction".
- Poker, politics, & philosophy looks at literary science fiction
- Based on the list of 75 words every sci-fi fan should know, Geekend follows-up with 25 more words every sci-fi fan should know.
- Holy Swine! It's a Batman Piggy Bank!
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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday January 30, 2008 at 12:11 AM
© Wednesday January 30, 2008 at 12:11 AM SF Signal
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I'll see your Batman bank and raise you a Sleestak bank
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Posted by Jeff P on Wednesday January 30, 2008 at 10:20 AM at 10:20 AM
Is no one else troubled that Ender's Game is being made into a video game? (Think about it...)
With that UFO news down here in Texas recently, it could make one wonder whether the invasion is about to begin.
Posted by JohnL on Wednesday January 30, 2008 at 2:54 PM at 2:54 PM