SF Tidbits for 3/27/08

• Interviews:
  • Sci-Fi Talk podcast-interviews Archbishop John J. Myers, co-author of Space Vulture with Gary K. Wolf. I’m reading this now and it’s lot’s of fun.
  • Locus Online includes interview excerpts from this month’s issue of Locus magazine, featuring Charles Stross and Peter Watts.
  • White Screen of Despair is not really helping me to manage my time when they point out the web comic Bit Strips and their one-shot Conan the Culinarian.
• Free Fiction:
  • Recently posted at ManyBooks.net: The Planet Strappers by Raymond Z. Gallun (1961).
  • The list of Free Hugo-Nominated Short Fiction has been updated with Michael Swanwick’s Hugo-nominated story, “A Small Room in Koboldtown“, which has been posted (in PDF format) by Tachyon Publications. [via Science Fiction Awards Watch]
• The Agony Column looks at Philip K. Dick’s Ubik: The Screenplay.
• Mike Brotherton gives us The Hard SF Writer’s Bookshelf.
• The latest episode of BoingBoing TV features Xeni Jardin covering the phenomenon of filk, the combination of folk music and science fiction fandom. I caught my first live performance of filk at last year’s ApolloCon and was quite impressed.
• io9 lists 6 Brilliant Dragons from Science Fiction.
• This week, SciFi Scanner’s SciFi Department asks: Can Superhero Parodies Be Saved?
• Before they were Action Figures: Plaid Stallions has a scan of a print ad hawking a Fembot doll, the “Female Robot Adversary of The Bionic Woman“. Ideal for “thrilling action and fashion play!” Uh-huh.

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