SF Tidbits for 3/13/08

• Pyr Editor Lou Anders and author William H. Drinkard (Elom) were interviewed by the local Fox News show regarding the local OmegaCon convention.
• Physicality of Words interviews Alastair Reynolds: “Too often the face of science that SF presents to the world is a negative one, of hubris, of experiments going wrong and ending the world.”
• Fast Forward latest video interview features Elizabeth Moon talking about Victory Conditions, the fifth novel in her Vatta’s War series.
• Neth Space has 5 questions for Steven Erikson (The Malazan Book of the Fallen.).
• Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine celebrates it’s 31st anniversary. Here’s the editorial by Sheila Williams.
• Apex Digest Issue 12 is now available and features fiction Brian Keene, Cherie Priest, Paul Jessup, Lavie Tidhar, Brandy Schwan, Maurice Broaddus, and Sara Genge; Hal Duncan interviewing Jeff VanderMeer; an interview with Laura Anne Gilman; and a new essay from Alethea Kontis; and a way-cool cover.
• Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist shows off the cool Stephan Martiniere cover for Kay Kenyon’s City Without End.
• At Geekend, Jay Garmon offers up a counter-rant on Why science fiction will never go extinct: “…come the Singularity, science fiction will cease to be distinct from mainstream fiction, since rapid, high-social-impact technological change will be so widespread and commonplace that literature will have no choice but to deal with this new status quo as part and parcel of its narrative.”
• The story behind the story: Night Shade Books goes behind the scenes with Andy Duncan to discuss his Nebula-nominated story “Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse“.
• Robert J. Sawyer appears on a literacy poster that also includes some of his favorite sf books.
• Biology in Science Fiction gets a leg up on REPO! The Genetic Opera. With YouTube video!
• Collider spills some details of Star Wars animated and live-action shows. [via SciFi Scanner]
• Kevin Maher has another entertaining entry in his SciFi Dept: The Time Travel Movie Guide.
• io9 lists 8 Unstoppable Rules For Writing Killer Short Stories.
• The List Universe lists Top 12 Dystopian Novels.
• S.L. Viehl lists 10 Things You Probably Shouldn’t Title Your Novel.
• Latest Worth1000 Photoshop contest: Superhero ModRen. Very cool stuff. [via Michael May]
• This Cthulhu-like monster in a business suit is steeped in awesome.
• Robots can’t act. Or can they? Here are Robots doing Pulp Fiction. [via growabrain]

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