SF Tidbits for 4/23/08

• SciFi Wire profiles Ekaterina Sedia, editor of the urban fantasy anthology Paper Cities.
• ActuSf interviews Kathryn Kristine Rusch (The Retrieval Artist series).
• World Screen interviews Bonnie Hammer, she who controls the SciFi Channel.
• Editor Jonathan Strahan is tracking over 50+ 2008 sf/f anthologies. Wow. Who says short fiction is dying again? It’d be interesting to see this list sorted by release month.
• Barnes and Nobles’ “Meet the Writers” features Karen Joy Fowler and Jim Butcher. Pasts episodes feature Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Kostova, Susanna Clarke, Christopher Moore, Christopher Paolini, Terry Brooks, Brian Jacques, Eoin Colfer, Holly Black, R. A. Salvatore, and Anne Rice.
• Free Fiction: “Your Collar” by Elizabeth Bear from the latest issue of Subterranean Press magazine.
• While supplies last, Apex is offering Apex issue #2 for a measly buck. It features fiction from James P. Hogan, Athena Workman, Bryn Sparks, and Peter Hagelslag.
• James Bloomer, Niall Harrison, Paul Raven, and Jonathan McCalmont gang-review Matter by Iain Banks.
• SciFi magazine SFX is teaming up with SentForever to become the world’s first magazine to be sent into space each month. Considering their logo presentation, I wonder if aliens will think we’re all about the S*X.
• io9 lists The 5 Types Of Scifi Deus Ex Machinas. What, no mention of The Naked God by Peter F. Hamilton?
• Jeff VanderMeer, he with his finger on the heartbeat of what the public really wants to know, asks authors about which beers they think go best with their books.
• On Earth Day, Karen Burnham talks about reading eBooks and lists some sources for eBook reading.
• Forget Jet Packs! Alex at SciFi Scanner wants to know: Where’s my robot butler?
• Popular Mechanics looks at Hollywood Sci-Fi’s Bronze Age and asks: Are Comics to Blame? [via Going to the Mat, who offers additional insight.]
• Geeks are Sexy lists 10 Cool Gadgets Every Geek Should Want.
• MTV has Brendan Fraser talking about his almost-role as Superman.
• J.J. Abrams says Cloverfield was meant for the small screen. Funny how he mentions that to coincide with the DVD release and not, say, before the film was in theaters where it caused some viewers (like me) to experience vertigo. Gee, thanks J.J. [via SciFi Scanner]

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