SF Tidbits for 2/7/08

• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Michael Swanwick, author of The Dragons of Babel.
• Podcasts and videocasts:
  • Are you watching Cult Pop yet? The latest videocast features Jim Hall interviewing Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier.
  • Stephen Euin Cobb’s latest The Future And You podcast features Paul Levinson talking about wikipedia, nanotechnology, SETI, and the Fermi Paradox.
  • TV Ontario’s lecture show Big Ideas is making their podcasts available, the latest featuring Robert J. Sawyer. [via SFF Audio]
• Now posted: David Langford’s Ansible 247 for February 2008.
• Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: “The Unnecessary Man” by Randall Garrett (1959).
• The Sarah Connor Chronicles has Peggy @ Biology in Science Fiction thinking about the real science behind artificial skin for Terminators (and People).
• Cover Gallery of the week: UMass Science Fiction Society has a collection of scifi magazine covers. Hanuman filters out all but the scifi sirens.
• A blog I can wrap my head around: Skull-A-Day.
• Geekend’s Jay Garmon tells us Why giant mecha robots are stupid, which in no way makes them any less cool.

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