SF Tidbits for 1/26/08

• Mike Brotherton, who made his book Star Dragon available as a free download, explains why he won’t be doing the same for his new novel, Spider Star.
• WIRED Science interviews sf author Paolo Bacigalupi. “I’m sitting there on the line sort of terrified of this man just haranguing me. At the end of that whole conversation – a conversation in which he critiques, line by line, my entire story – he finishes up by saying, ‘Well you got some potential, but don’t write in genre, it’s a waste of time. Don’t get stuck in it like I got stuck in it.’ And then he hangs up. ” [via JJA]
• The latest episode of The Time Traveler Show podcast features an interview with interview Jim C. Hines, who reads from his forthcoming book Goblin War.
• Adventures in Scifi Publishing podcast interviews Terry Goodkind (The Confessor).
• Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: “The Quantum Jump” by Robert Wicks (1958).
• Free Audio book at Escape Pod: Stephen Eley reads “Artifice and Intelligence” by Tim Pratt. [via SFF Audio]
• SF Author Eric Brown has a redesigned website. [via Solaris Blog]
• The British Science Fiction Awards Forum is now live.
• The Planetary Stories website features pulp space opera stories.
• Little Fivers lists The Top 7 Sci-Fi Jeopardy Categories. (#2: Other Games Ender Won’t Play.)

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