SF Tidbits for 2/28/08

• There’s a brand new website for Space Vulture, the new pulp science fiction adventure book written by Gary K. Wolf (Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, the basis for the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) and Archbishop John J. Myers.
• Paul Cornell has announced that he has been commissioned to adapt the Iain Banks novella “State of the Art” into a BBC radio play. [via Iain Banks (Official Site)]
• Free SF Sample: Alastair Reynolds has posted the 2nd chapter from House of Suns.
• Tobias Buckell, in a guest essay at The Angry Black Woman, talks about how history affects his fiction.
• Nancy Kress is dwelling on the Pareto principle and wonders: Does the 80/20 rule apply to science fiction? “Should we pay that disproportionate amount of attention to that 20% of writers, of stories, of a given author’s oeuvre?”
• Enturbulation claims to have proof that L. Ron Hubbard plagiarized Scientology from a 1934 German book called Scientologie. [Boing Boing]
• The SFWA has decided that “World Enough and Time” is indeed eligible for the Nebula, despite some complaints. Science Fiction Awards Watch has more.
• Good news for Our UK Readers: BBC is airing a 3-part series called The Worlds of Fantasy exploring the growth of Fantasy fiction. The bad news: it started yesterday (Wednesday February 27th). [via Yatterings]
• Mr. McGroovy’s shows us How to Build a Cardboard Spaceship. [via MonkeyFilter]
• Science Fiction Addiction names 5 Strong Female Characters Science Fiction Literature.
• SciFi Scanner’s Kevin Maher has another illuminating episode of the SciFi Department in which he lists 5 Oscar-award winning actors who went on to grace the screens of B-movie trash.

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