SF Tidbits for 2/6/08

• Continuing yesterday’s awkwardness, here’s another book cover that makes me tingly: Tobias Buckell’s Sly Mongoose.
• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Paul Melko, author of Singularity’s Ring. Tim Pratt also has an interview with Melko.
• Interview links from Locus Online:
  • Creative Commons interviews James Patrick Kelly (Burn and the upcoming collection The Wreck of the Godspeed).
  • ActuSf interviews Jonathan Stroud (The Bartimeus trilogy).
  • McNally Robinson interviews Robert J. Sawyer (Rollback).
  • The Writers’ Block interviews Jeremy C. Shipp (Vacation).
• Eos Blog features guest blogger Jonathan Barnes, who talks about his novel The Somnambulist.
• Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: “Accidental Death” by Peter Baily.
• Move over Han Solo, Paizo Publishing looks at Science Fiction’s Original Badass, C.L. Moore’s Northwest Smith.
• Speaking of Robert J. Sawyer, he offers up these interesting tidbits:
  • World Fantasy Award winner Nalo Hopkinson has joined the Red Deer Press team as the editor of her own fantasy imprint.
  • Sawyer also examines Literary vs. commercial fiction.
• Books Under the Bridge continues its series of posts about religion in science fiction with The Future of Religion (Part 4). The bottom line: “Very few novels in science fiction portray humans as religious.” He then follows with a list of a few sf books that do.
• SF Universe talks with Summer Glau (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles).
• Attention Firefly fans! Steven Brust has released his Firefly novel, My Own Kind of Freedom, as freely-downloadable fanfic. [via Fred K. from Texas Best Grok]
• Star Wars humor: Topless Robot lists 10 Star Wars Toys that Unintentionally Look Like Other Celebrities. That Dengar/Johnny Cash one had me laughing.

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