SF Tidbits for 4/1/08

• Interviews:
  • SFFWorld get all interviewy with James Barclay and Alastair Reynolds
  • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction interviews Steven Utley about his story “The 400-Million-Year Itch”.
  • At Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer interviews Jim C. Hines (The Snort-Fest Trilogy).
  • io9 interviews Jane Espenson, who has written episodes of Firefly and Battlestar Galactica.
  • PDF ‘zine Journey Planet interviews John Scalzi, who talks about Fan Hugos. [via Science Fiction Awards Watch]
• George R. R. Martin will be on B&N Book Club’s Center Stage on April 14-18. [via Grasping for the Wind, who has more details]
• Sez Times Online: Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing. Meanwhile, Guardian Book Blog asks: “Will online breaches of copyright kill the printed book – or bring it to a new audience?”
• Free Fiction:
  • “G.O.D.” by Jay Lake.
  • “The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft” by Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt.
  • Recently free at ManyBooks.net:
    • “Man Made” by Albert Teichner (1960)
    • “The Deadly Daughters” by Winston K. Marks (1958)
    • “Survival Tactics” by Al Sevcik (1958)
    • “Second Landing” by Flloyd Wallace (1960)
• Spectrum has announed the artist list for Spectrum 15. Looks like another strog edition.
• Did you know there was a whole blog devoted to bookshelves? [via Neatorama]
• Star Wars Blog stumbles across an antique ad for a General Grievous Cycle and cool-looking Steampunk Darth Vader Mask.
• Speaking of Star Wars, here’s what Darth Vader does on summer vacation.
• Design blog Abduzeedo looks at Cool Science Fiction Posters.
• Solar Flare returns after a year-long hiatus from blogging. Welcome back, Eoghann!
• Chris Roberson takes us to Bob Clampett’s John Carter of Mars.
• Stranger than Truth lists The Top 10 Animated Science Fiction Characters.
• Either it’s April Fool’s day or Ann and Jeff VanderMeer are editing an anthology called Squidpunk!
• The 30th Anniversary Issue of fanzine File 770 is out. SF Signal gets a mention as a “high-energy” blog. Oh great…now we have to live up to that claim. (I kid! Thanks, Mike! )

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