SF Tidbits for 4/2/08
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at
12:20 am
- Gene Wolfe’s next book, An Evil Guest is billed as “Lovecraft mets Blade Runner.” [via Claw of the Conciliator]
- At Time magazine Lev Grossman & Matt Selman remind us about The Return of Neal Stephenson, specifically via his upcoming book Anathem. [sent via Fred K.]
- The Art Department gives us a sneak peek at John Scalzi’s repackaged Agent to the Stars with it’s shiny new cover.
- Now posted: Dave Langford’s Ansible 249.
- John C. Wright has posted the first four chapters of Null-A Continuum.
- The World in the Satin Bag interviews Paul Melko.
- L.E. Modesitt, Jr. is thinking about science fiction predictions: “…the failings of later SF writers to anticipate the future rest on three factors…”
- On for thewriters: E.E. Knight talks about creating compelling characters.
- The latest issue of Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly features fiction from Robert Reed, A.M. Dellamonica, Ann Leckie and others.
- The latest issue of Clarkesworld Magazine features fiction from Jeffrey Ford and Jeremiah Sturgill, an article by Tim Pratt, Jeff VanderMeer’s interview with K.J. Bishop, and a spectacular “Floating Fish” cover by artist Mats Minnhagen.
- Speaking of VanderMeer, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer will be writing a column for io9 about SF/fantastic art. Congratulations, Ann & Jeff!
- Topless Robot is making me hungry. Check out this Battle of Hoth wedding cake. Mmmmm…Imperial walkers…
- The April Fool’s Award for Funniest Prank goes to….Edward Champion’s Return of the Return of the Reluctant for this oh-so-funny post called Harriet Klausner Gives 3-Star Amazon Review. Could you imaging such a thing? Out of all the thousands of reviews she’s done, how would you like to be the author who wrote a book to which Klausner gave only 3 stars. I’m just sayin’…
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From E.E. Knight: “Of course there’s more to character creation than up-dos and/or sack-shaving.”
Truer words have rarely been spoken (in polite company).
Whoops. Every once in a while our prelims end up on Amazon. Here is the revised EVIL GUEST cover.
Thanks, Irene.
We use script to display our images, so when the Amazon image is updated this post will pull it down. For now, it’s interesting to see the evolution of the cover – as much as two data points can be considered as such.