SF Tidbits for 1/19/08

• SCI FI Wire profiles Jon Armstrong, author of the Philip K. Dick Award finalist Grey, which you can hear as a free audiobook.
• Subterranean Press is reprinting Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon with a cool-looking Blade Runner-looking cover.
• Tad Williams Tad Williams has a redesigned website and blog (which has just been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog). [via Rob's Blog o' Stuff]
• New Book deals:
  • The Lord of Silence by Mark Chadbourn.
  • Subterranean Press is publishing Jim Butcher‘s non-Harry Dresden novelette (Backup) that’s still set in the Dresden universe. It comes with illustrations by Mike Mignola. [also via Rob's Blog o' Stuff]
• Free Fiction:
  • James Bloomer (proprietor of Big Dumb Object) has published a really fun story called “A Letter Of Complaint” in Spacesuits and Sixguns Magazine. The story reads like a combination of David Langford and Paul DiFillipo’s light-hearted “And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon“. Go read. Now.
  • Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: “The Valley of the Flame” by Henry Kuttner (1946) and “The Silk and the Song” by Charles Louis Fontenay (1956)
• Big Finish Productions is launching a new service (beginning February 1st) which allows you to purchase and download the audiobooks of Doctor Who, Bernice Summerfield, Sapphire and Steel, and the forthcoming Stargate series. [via Oupost Gallifrey]
• Entertainment Weekly offers Cloverfield: Making a Monster. (See also: Cloverfield reviews from JP and me.)
• Make has a photo gallery of sci-Fi objects made with a Spectrum Z510 3D printer. [via Posthuman Blues]
• The SciFi Blog shines the SciFi babe spotlight on Erin Gray: “Before there was Seven of Nine, there was Colonel Wilma Deering.” I remember having a substitute teacher back in high school who was crazy about her.
• In Zombie News:
  • Phoenix ComiCon is holding a Zombie Beauty Pageant. [via Bibliophile Stalker]
  • Great White Snark lists The Top 5 Celebrities That Zombies Would Avoid Eating. Finally, a zombie list with Keith Richards! There is justice after all…

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