SF Tidbits for 3/19/08
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at
12:37 am
- At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles S.M. Stirling, author of In the Courts of the Crimson Kings.
- UK SF Book News interviews Joe Abercrombie (the The First Law trilogy).
- The Guardian interviews Terry Pratchett about Alzheimer’s, his books, and the movie adaptation of The Colour of Magic. [via Grasping for the Wind]
- Also check out the trailer for The Colour of Magic.
- Gary Westfahl’s essay Tunnel Vision and the Unfarmed Sky: Columbia, and the Dreams of Science Fiction, Five Years Later discusses the space program. And the Mundanes say….
- Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net:
- “The Premiere” by Richard Sabia (1959).
- “The Great Potlatch Riots” by Allen Kim Lang (1959).
- Random House has published a spoiler for Brisingr, the 3rd book in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance trilogy.
- Solaris will be publishing Heart of Veridon by Tim Akers.
- Tobias Buckell briefs us on The Novel Synopsis Project, where authors submit the proposals they used to get their books published.
- /dev/null/kevin lists The 7 Most Annoying Sci-Fi Kids. No, Wesley Crusher is not #1…but he does make the list.
- Kevin Maher serves up another fun SciFi Dept: A Children’s Guide to the Apocalypse, a “definitive instructional video for children on how to survive with minimal death and dismemberment in a post-apocalyptic future.”
- Two words: Lego Futurama.
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Wait a list of annoying kids and Adric and several of the Tomorrow People aren’t there?
How can I take that seriously?