SF Tidbits for 3/26/08
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 at
12:13 am
- Weird Tales announces The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years. [via Locus Online]
- SFScope rounds up the winners of the Ditmar Awards, celebrating the best of Australian science fiction and fantasy.
- Night Shade Books’ Jeremy Lassen is hosting a Breakfast for Barry campaign in support of a Hugo Award for Barry N. Malzberg.
- Interviews:
- The Agony Column podcast-interviews Jeffrey Ford (The Shadow Year).
- Spike Magazine interviews Iain M. Banks (Matter).
- ComicMix interviews Joe Lansdale about his work on the comic Pigeons from Hell, an adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s story featuring artists Nathan Fox.
- Radio Free Bliss podcast-interviews Sue Lange, author of We, Robots, who discusses Joanna Russ, feminism, speculative fiction, humidity and the Mason-Dixon Line.
- Free Fiction:
- Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s anthology, The New Weird, has a new home on MySpace and offers a FREE (PDF version) of Jay Lake’s “The Lizard of Ooze“. Jay has also recorded an audio version. Jeff VanderMeer has more info and goodies and deals.
- Tachyon Publications offers Michael Swanwick’s Hugo-nominated “A Small Room in Koboldtown” in glorious PDF. [via Locus Online]
- Free Speculative Fiction Online has added a ton of new additions this week.
- Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: “The Monster” by Randall Garrett (writing as S.M. Tenneshaw, 1949)
- Pyr is offering a Sampler eBook containing “sizable excerpts” from Joe Abercrombie’s Before They Are Hanged, Kay Kenyon’s A World Too Near, Theodore Judson’s The Martian General’s Daughter, Robert Silverberg’s Son of Man, David Louis Edelman’s Infoquake, and Mike Resnick’s Stalking the Unicorn and Stalking the Dragon.
- More free award-nominated fiction: The page of 2008 Hugo Award Nominees has been updated to include Campbell-nominee Mary Robinette Kowal’s Free Fiction Sampler.
- Magazine news:
- The final print edition of Subterranean magazine is available for pre-order, and contains fiction from Michael Marshall Smith, Tim Lebbon, R. Andrew Heidel, Jason Erik Lundberg, Sarah Monette, John Scalzi, and Darren Speegle.
- Apex Digest Issue 12 contains fiction from Brian Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury, Cherie Priest, Michael West, Jim Stewart, Paul Jessup, Lavie Tidhar, Maurice Broaddus, Ryck Neube, Joy Marchand, Brandy Schwan, Geoffrey Girard, Durand Welsh; a Hal Duncan interview with Jeff VanderMeer, and more.
- At Torque Control, Niall Harrison lists the contents of the latest issue of Vector, the “Review of 2007″ issue.
- Think you’ve read everything by Kurt Vonnegut? Julie Phillips reports in the Village Voice that a new book, Armageddon in Retrospect, collects his unpublished writing.
- Orbit blog points us to Unshelved comic strips take on The Electric Church by Jeff Somers.
- Congratulations to scifi blogger “Ariel” (from UKSF Book News) on his new job at Orbit!
- It’s official: Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. has a cameo as inventor Tony Stark in this summer’s other Marvel superhero movie The Incredible Hulk.
- SciFi Scanner has some more news on the A&E miniseries adaptation of The Andromeda Strain (a Ridley and Tony Scott production), including a link to the miniseries website.
- The List Universe lists The Top 15 Science Fiction Book Series.
- Even setting Kanye West’s music to SciFi visuals (like Akira, Tron, and 2001: A Space Odyssey) can’t make me like his music.
Related posts:
- SF Tidbits for 2/25/08
- SF Tidbits for 2/27/08
- SF Tidbits for 3/5/08
- SF Tidbits for 5/9/06
- SF Tidbits for 6/13/06
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