SF Tidbits for 4/11/08

• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Ann Aguirre, author of Grimspace.
• Matt Ruff shows us some cool custom cover art for some of his books.
• This week’s free Tor book is The Disunited States of America by Harry Turtledove (have you signed up yet?) and the free wallpaper comes from Shelly Wan and Scott M. Fischer.
• Free Audio Fiction: Escape Pod reads “Schwartz Between the Galaxies” by Robert Silverberg.
• If you are someone who likes to place bets, check out the probabilities calculated by File 770 regarding the short fiction award wins of Michael Swanwick and others.
• The website for WildSidePress got a face lift.
• The South Florida Sun-Sentinel profiles Russell T. Davies and his Doctor Who Empire.
• Guardian Arts Blog says There’s more to sci-fi fandom than Star Trek: “Open-minded, curious and polite: the science fiction community should be emulated, not lampooned.”
• Over at Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days, bibliophile guest blogger Matt Staggs talks about getting rid of books…or not. Check out all these biblioholics coming out of the closet. Oh, if only I had that courage…
• SciFi Scanner lists The Most Reluctant Astronauts in Movie History. Poor Don Knotts…he always gets screwed.

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