SF Tidbits for 3/22/08
By John DeNardo |
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 at
12:32 am
- Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award: Nova Swing by M. John Harrison. Special Citation: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain by Minister Faust.
- The 2007 Bram Stoker Awards ceremony will be broadcast live on the Internet on Saturday 29 March 2008.
- Free audio fiction at Escape Pod: “This, My Body” by Jeremiah Tolbert, which is rated X for “graphic sexual and culinary scenes”.
- Bookgasm lists The 9 Most Annoying People at the Bookstore.
- Aye Write! has video of Iain M. Banks (Matter) and Ken MacLeod (The Execution Channel). Hear also: the complete audio recording.
- Peter Hodges interviews Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind.
- This week’s genre musings: Hal Duncan points us to Roger Luckhurst’s The Many Deaths of Science Fiction: A Polemic: “The death of the genre is the only way in which SF could survive as literature.”
- According to NASA, a powerful stellar explosion (a gamma ray burst) detected March 19 by NASA’s Swift satellite has shattered the record for the most distant object that could be seen with the naked eye. Larry Sessions proposes that we refer to the blast (officially designated GRB 080319B) as the “Clarke event” in honor of recently departed Sir Arthur C. Clarke. [via Jason Sanford]
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Too bad it could only be seen for an hour. Ironic that the blast happened near Clarke’s death.
Oops. I shouldn’t have used the word ‘ironic.’ They’re unrelated events.
In regards to the BSA’s. I hope Joe Hill wins for best novel. For best short story, my vote goes to William Browning Spencer’s TENTH MUSE. For you folks who haven’t yet read any of Spencer’s work, track it down. His work is amazing.