SF Tidbits for 2/22/08

• Over at Grist, an environmental journalist Michelle Nijhuis interviews Paolo Bacigalupi (Pump Six and Other Stories): “Science fiction, traditionally, is very much a technophilic sort of literature. And I’m much more of a technophobe — I’m not quite a Luddite, but I’m definitely not a techno champion.” [via Night Shade Books]
• The Dragon Page podcast-interviews Nina Munteneau, author of Darwin’s Paradox. [via SFFAudio]
• HardSF interviews John Barnes. On the staleness of science fiction: “Lately I find the weird stuff isn’t, somehow, disturbing enough, the hard stuff doesn’t engage anything emotionally for me, and the warmer, fuzzier things by the new writers seem terribly derivative.” [via Monkeys In My Pants.]
• Lou Anders was guest-blogging over at the blog of Stargate: Atlantis executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, where he talks in-depth about his anthology Fast Forward 1.
• Electric Velocipede editor John Klima posts his Thoughts on Short Fiction.
• Solaris has signed on Keith Brooke (Genetopia and Infinity Plus – The Anthology) to write a science fiction thriller called The Accord.
• Ellen Datlow has posted pictures from the February KGB reading in NYC.
• John Scalzi is auctioning off a galley of Zoe’s Tale for Disabled Veterans. [via SFScope]

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