• SciFi Wire profiles Adam-Troy Castro, author of Emissaries From the Dead.


• Dragon Page Cover To Cover podcast-interviews Scott Sigler (Infected). [via SFFaudio]


• Eos Blog has Fiona McIntosh talking about creating fantasy worlds, specifically for her latest book Odalisque, the first book in The Percheron Saga.


• Free Fiction:
  
• Futurismic is posting free fiction again. Their latest is "Mallory" by Leonard Richardson.


• Recently-free fiction at ManyBooks.net: "The Sun King" by Gaston Derreaux (1949).


• Free Audio fiction: Starship Sofa podcasts "And the Deep Blue Sea" by Elizabeth Bear, which appeared in the Wastelands anthology.


• Science Fiction Awards Watch has the scoop on Free Hugo-nominated Novels for Hugo Voters.


• John Joseph Adams lists the contents of the May 2008 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which includes fiction from Robert Reed, George Tucker, Albert E. Cowdrey, M. Rickert and more.


• The Art Department points us to the Spectrum 2009 calendar.


• Guardian looks at The politics of sci-fi. "Science fiction awards shortlists are a hotbed of rivalry, intrigue and a desperate desire for literary respectability." The article mentions Michael Chabon, the "secret weapon of a genre" who will "reveal his origins as a genetically engineered Super Writer, bred to infiltrate mainstream literature with high-quality genre fiction".


• Who says lawyers are stiff? John C. Wright points us to Lord of the Rings as Property Law. To wit: "Sauron holds ownership in the Ring through accession, by working one thing (base metals) into a new thing (a ring of power)"


• SciFi Scanner unearths Fun Sci-Fi Finds on Hulu.


• SciFi Scanner also directs us to this cool Superhero Lonely exhibition of John Jacobs Meyer. (My favorite: The Talosian from Star Trek: TOS)


• OK, one more from SciFi Scanner: the latest SciFi Dept looks at Fantasy Cars of Tomorrow. (Features Speed Racer, Iron Man, Death Race 2000, Mad Max, Damnation Alley, and more.)


• The animated film Dead Space is billed as Alien meets Doom in space.


• Future of Classic explores the Kid-Friendly Lessons in Terminator 2: "ATM's are a valuable source for funds that don't belong to you... but that can become yours."

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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday April 03, 2008 at 12:39 AM
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