SF Tidbits for 3/11/08
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 at
12:22 am
- io9 interviews John Varley (Rolling Thunder): “Space opera has not only arrived, it has conquered all, since the release of Star Wars. Don’t get me wrong, I loved that movie (and none of the sequels), but I don’t see it as science fiction.”
- SciFi Wire lists the finalists for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
- Robert J. Sawyer is featured on Living in Toronto.
- F&SF profiles James Stoddard.
- The First Book interviews debut author Anton Strout (Dead to Me).
- Space Westerns is running a cool feature this month: The Women of Space Westerns! First up: “A World is Born” by Leigh Brackett (1941).
- Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net:
- “The Alternate Plan” by Gerry Maddren (1958)
- “The Marooner” by Charles A. Stearns (1958)
- “New Year’s Wake (A Terran Empire Story)” by Ann Wilson.
- As an aid to aspiring writers, Sean Williams has posted his book pitches.
- Mike Brotherton lists the strengths of science fiction.
- According to Topless Robot, Spiderman’s Aunt May is sexy as hell.
- The Blog of the Zombie Astronaut completes the audio postings of The Space Alphabet. I know you were waiting on the edge of your seat.
- Here’s a slideshow of things Luke Skywalker got wrong. At least until it breaks into song… [via Star Wars Blog]
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As always, anything that helps the writers is much appreciated.
Well, at least one useful thing was mentioned in that Varley interview…
“One of these days I hope to write a third novel in the Steel Beach, Golden Globe trilogy, entitled Irontown Blues. The reason I haven’t written it is that I don’t yet know what’s going to happen.”
How long have we been waiting on “Irontown Blues”? Maybe he’s in a race with David Gerrold to keep us hanging!!!
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Varley: “I frankly don’t read much SF, haven’t for a long time…” – Hmmmmm. How can he comment on the state of SF writing if he doesn’t actually read it? To his credit he mostly talks about movies but still…
Note to self – from now on in SFSignal interviews we need to ask authors how much SF they read before asking them for opinions on the genre.
I hate to correct link #4 (especially since Jason’s a friend and I’d love to see him crack that magazine), but it’s James Stoddard who gets the electrons in F&SF.
Whoops! Link fixed.