SF Tidbits for 3/25/08

Sweet Jebus, there are a lot of links today!

• Free book! Night Shade Books is offering for free a downloadable version of Jon Armstrong’s John W. Campbell Award-nominated novel, Grey. (This was previously released as a free audio book. Now you can read along with Jon!)
• Free Hugo fiction! F&SF’s magazine has posted the Hugo-nominated story “Finisterra” by David Moles. (See also: A list of Hugo nominated stories with free fiction links.)
• Apex Books has posted the final table of contents for I Remember the Future, a collection of award-nominated stories by Michael A. Burstein.
• Joseph Mallozzi, writer and executive producer for Stargate:SG-1 and Stargate:Atlantis, has chosen April book club picks: Timescape by Gregory Benford (sf), The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford (fantasy), and The Keep by F. Paul Wilson (horror). [via Jeffrey Ford, who will guest-blog on or around April 21st]
• Subterranean Press has posted some cool J.K. Potter artwork for the Fisher King Trilogy by Tim Powers.
• The Wenatchee World Online interviews Kay Kenyon, author of A World Too Near.
• The First Book interviews Matthew Jarpe, author of Radio Freefall.
• Bibliophile Stalker interviews John Klima, editor of Electric Velocipede and Logorrhea.
• James Wallace Harris is contemplating a follow-up piece to his Classics of Science Fiction article (itself a classic to which I repeatedly turn) with this post: The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of the 20th Century, in which he tries to identify science fiction novels that are popular by (Gasp!) non-sf readers.
• Andrew Wheeler takes issue with New York Times critic Dave Itzkoff asking Who Is The New Clarke?
• Neatorama points us to Comics with Pulp Magazine Style Covers. Check out Glen Orbik’s Batman and Gary Gianni’s Swamp Thing Martian Manhunter.
• The Linguist lists Sci-Fi languages.
• GalleyCat looks at U.S. vs. U.K. book covers and mainstream crossover potential. Orbit Blog offers more insight.
• John Joseph Adams, editor of the post-apocalyptic anthology Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse absolutely hated the post-apocalyptic movie Doomsday. “It’s just absolutely abysmal. You just might find yourself wishing the end of the world would come just so you wouldn’t have to sit through another second of this pathetic excuse for a movie.” Ouch!
• Universal Day of the Jedi lists The 10 Coolest Star Wars Videos Ever Made. (For dessert, be sure to check out Triumph vs. Star Wars Fans.)
• Wired goes behind the scenes of Fanboys.
• Guess which science fiction show made Mental Floss Blog’s list of 10 TV Shows That Changed The World?
• SCIFI.COM is planning a major expansion with “new stand-alone gaming and tech sites, original and exclusive scripted entertainment, a game center and a new social-game experience.”
• Real Science: The Science Channel has a photo gallery of dark science.
• If I did need a psychotherapist – and I’m not saying I don’t – I would hope that I could afford a real one, and not just this online robotic one. [via Wired]
• Jeff VanderMeer is grooving on rayguns. Control yourself, Jeff. For goodness sake, you’re supposed…to…be…Mmmmmm…rayguns….
• Two fun links from Boing Boing: A Tardis MAME cabinet and Hobbit Socks!

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