SF Tidbits for 2/16/08

• Omnivoracious has published the introduction to Inferno by Ellen Datlow.
• David Niall Wilson interviews Sarah Monette, author of Mélusine and The Virtu : “Well, the first thing to remember is Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of everything is crap. This applies across the board, to literary fiction (soi-disant) as much as genre fiction, but what tends to happen is that reviewers and critics will compare the 10% to the 90%: that is, the best of the literary fiction with the undistinguished mass of genre fiction. So, yeah, of course genre fiction comes off looking like pulp.”
• Fantasy Book Critic interviews David Keck, author of In the Eye of the Heaven and In a Time of Treason: “I’m a fool for world building. You have no idea…”
• SCI FI Weekly interviews George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead and the new Diary of the Dead).
• Jeff VanderMeer shows off the cover for his upcoming novel Predator: South China Sea.
• Cover Pr0n Extravaganza! Locus Online has posted their 2007 Cover Art Gallery.
• Boing^2 points us to this Gallery of Space Settlement Art.
• Paul Jessup says fantasy has been sucking on the teet of SF for too long: “All the current ailing staticness of fantasy as a genre, stems from it being written by science fiction writers.” Discuss…
• Warren Ellis has Harlan Ellison writing about The WGA Strike Settlement, as only Harlan Ellison can: “You are their [bitc**s]. They outslugged you, outthought you, outmaneuvered you; and in the end you ripped off your pants, painted yer asses blue, and said yes sir, may I have another.” [via SciFi Scanner]
• Lucasfilm is suing Gen Con over issues with Celebration IV.
• io9 lists a buttload of Tron trivia. [via Chris Roberson]
• Gerry Canavan offers up a nice set of Philip K. Dick Links.
• SF Site lists their 2007 Readers’ Choices for Best Read of the Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
• Knight Rider lists!
  • Topless Robot lists The 10 Pre-KITT Knight Rider Inventions that Didn’t Work (like the Rickshaw 2000).
  • Little Fivers lists Things the New KITT Will Not Be Saying. (#9: “If you sing ‘Jump in My Car‘ just once I swear I’ll drive us into a Mack truck.”)

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