SF Tidbits for 2/5/08
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 at
12:15 am
- Upcoming books that have me feeling a little tingly inside:
- House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds.
- The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan.
- Over at SCI FI Weekly, John Joseph Adams interviews Tim Pratt, author of The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl and Blood Engines.
- Charles Tan @ Bibliophile Stalker interviews Jeffrey Ford (The Shadow Year ).
- To mark the release of his book Marseguro, Edward Willett (who is interviewed by Facebook here) is running a give-away contest through February, giving away one signed copy per week.
- John Scalzi offers some post-writing thoughts on his just-finished book, Zoe’s Tale, a novel set in the Old Man’s War universe whose events run parallel to The Last Colony. “…there’s so much new here that I’m personally satisfied that it’s not just a quickie rehash of TLC…” [via Adventures in Reading]
- Two interesting tidbits from The latest Tor newsletter:
- Tor Books is proud to present American Heroes, the spin-off blog based on George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards mosaic novels.
- Steven Gould talks about his book, Jumper, becoming a movie. To answer fans who say “They are ruining the book!”, Gould replies “Late in his career, James M. Cain, author of Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice, was asked by an interviewer, ‘How do you feel about what Hollywood has done to your books?’ ‘Hollywood has done nothing to my books,’ Cain replied. ‘They’re right over there on the shelf, exactly as I wrote them.’ And I’ll add: because of the movie and the movie publicity, tens of thousands (maybe more!) of people will read the books who would never have otherwise read them. This is a good thing.”
- Al @ Allumination tells us why Why Fantasy isn’t crap, and SF isn’t any better: “…the claim that SF is superior to Fantasy because it is a more accurate reflection of the potentials and realities of the world is meaningless. Science can seed fiction, but it can’t (by definition) be fiction.”
- Popular Science has a Science of Superheroes gallery, examining that, contrary to what Scotty says, you can break the laws of physics.
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Not sure they’ll use that in the marketing ‘Alistair Reynolds – he makes me feel all tingly inside’ :-@
I like Mr. Gould’s attitude. A writer can slave away for years trying to exert some quality control over the movie version of his book. Fruitlessly banging one’s head against the corporate entertainment industry can seriously derail a writer’s career, as happened with John Varley and Millennium. Even after all those years of effort, the movie might still suck, like Millennium did.
Or, the writer can take the money without a glance backward and use it to write more good books and stories. I agree with Gould — this is a good thing, especially if you want to see more Gould books in the store.
House of Suns: But when will us poor colonials see it? Ditto the book Paul McAuley finished that makes me feel “all tingly”.
