SF Tidbits for 4/15/08

• Free Fiction:
  • From ManyBooks.net: The Planet Strappers by Raymond Z. Gallun. FWIW, this was listed on the list of SF Signal’s Top 26 SF Books You’ve Never Read, so now you have no excuse.
  • The Spring 2008 issue of Subterranean Online kicks off with: “Air and Angels” by Beth Bernobich, “By the Liter” by Ekaterina Sedia, and “Stone Eggs” by Adriana Campoy and James P. Blaylock. (There’s also an interview with Sherrilyn Kenyon by Alethea Kontis.)
• The winner of this year’s James Tiptree, Jr. Award, given to works of SF and fantasy that explore gender roles, is Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army, published as Daughters of the North in the U.S. (See also: Past winners.) [via Locus Online]
• Over at The Telegraph, Mark Chadbourn looks at The fantastic appeal of fantasy: “The more rational the world gets, the more we demand the irrational in our fiction.” [via When Gravity Fails]
• Matt Cheney‘s latest Strange Horizons column is The Hero, Pulped. It’s all about his latest obsession, The Spider. I’ve bought several of these in paperback and noticed in B&N that they are being reprinted. Not that I buy old pulp paperback that I have no time to read or troll bookstore aisles on weekends…
• The First Book interviews James Van Pelt, author of the collection Summer of the Apocalypse.
• Bibliophile Stalker interviews Sean Wallace, proprietor of Prime Books.
• The Toronto Public Library SF author reading series has some familiar names lined up between April and May: Karl Schroeder, James Alan Gardner, Peter Watts, Kelley Armstrong, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jim Munroe, Cory Doctorow, Nalo Hopkinson, Terence Green, Phyllis Gotlieb, Julie E. Czerneda, Dave Duncan, Edward Willett, and more.
• The latest issue of Concatenation has been posted with new content.
• Roddenberry Productions will be hosting a special online screening of “To Serve All My Days: A Night in 1969,” the latest fan-created episode from Star Trek: New Voyages. Roddenberry.com’s Sneak Peak Into “1969″ contest will run from April 10-28, with 500 winners being chosen to view the online premiere.
• CNN knows what Patrick Stewart does for fun. Hint: It’s not Sesame Street Shakespeare, but it’s close.
• Cinematical is showing the poster for The Incredible Hulk, which to me, only emphasizes the implausibility of the stretchiness of Bruce Banner’s pants.
• Several genre book covers make Smashing Magazine‘s list of Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks.

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