• Interviews:
  • Jennifer Pelland (Unwelcome Bodies) is featured in John Scalzi's latest Big Idea post.
  • Mike Brotherton interviews Jim Hines (Goblin War).
  • ActuSf interviews Michael Moorcock (The Metatemporal Detective).
  • Tor Books MySpace Blog has a video interview with R.A. Salvatore (The Ancient).
  • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction profiles Alexander Jablokov on his story "The Boarder".


• Jeff VanderBits:
  • Wired's GeekDad blog interviews Jeff and Ann VanderMeer. [via Boing Boing]
  • Free Read: The Wired interview also offers a free PDF download of Jeff VanderMeer's chapbook The Situation, courtesy of PS Publishing.
  • Jeff is also "working" on a Predator Opera.


• Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: "Adaptation" by D.M. Reynolds.


• Mike Brotherton has posted free sample chapters of Spider Star.


• Larry Niven is teaming up with Alchemic Productions to produce the game Free Fall.


• Over at Geekend, Jay Garmon is marking the day science fiction goes extinct, leveraging Charlie Stross' post Blindsided by the future.


• Tobias Buckell is talking about free ebooks and rounds up a bunch of free sf novels.


• Locus Online has posted Cory Doctorow's latest commentary, Put Not Your Faith In Ebook Readers. "Frankly, book reading just isn't important enough to qualify for priority treatment in that marketplace."


• David Louis Edelman posts his introduction Mervyn Peake's Titus Alone.


• Jason Sizemore writes in to tell us that Apex Publications will be publishing The Next Fix, a collection of Matt Wallace's short fiction.


• Jeffrey Ford lists the table of contents for his upcoming collection The Drowned Life.


• Have you ever though of arranging your bookshelves by color? Even I'm not that anal...


• The National Space Society (NSS) and Hadley Rille Books announce the Return To Luna Short Story Contest, focusing on science Fiction stories that show the adventure of lunar settlement.


• Smashing Magazine lists 25 Brilliant Animated Short Movies.


• Viper Pilot's Briefing Room lists Five Awesome Examples of Science Fiction. (Short version: Gattaca, Foundation, Earth, Dark City, Diaspora.)


• The Deadbolt lists 4 Things to Expect from The Clone Wars TV Show (and 3 Things Not To).

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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday March 05, 2008 at 1:12 AM
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