SF Tidbits for 4/24/08

• SciFi Wire looks at the 85th anniversary of Weird Tales.
• Lois McMaster Bujold (The Sharing Knife) guest-posts at Eos Books.
• Richard K. Morgan asks the sf community: “What the hell is wrong with us?” [via Pat's Fantasy Hotlist and OF Blog of the Fallen, both of whom add interesting commentary]
• The latest The Future And You podcast features David Brin.
• On Alastair Reynold’s redesigned website, he says his book, The Prefect, was Klausnered — that is, given a good review by you-know-who.: “…when I was writing THE PREFECT, and needed a handy index by which to measure the prefects’ ability to speed-read, the name ‘Klausner’ couldn’t help but jump to mind. Hence, the throwaway joke on P26 (UK edition)” As might be expected, Klausner’s review never mentioned that fact.
• io9 interviews Karen Joy Fowler (Wit’s End ).
• Here’s an audio Q&A with Minister Faust (From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain), taken from his talk at the University of Alberta. [via Minister Faust]
• Starship Sofa podcasts “Distraction” by Spider Robinson.
• Yesterday was the 2nd annual International Pixel-Stained Technopeasants Day. What does that mean to you? A butt-load of free fiction.
• TV Producer reviews SF: Joseph Mallozzi reviews Jeffrey Ford’s The Empire of Ice Cream. Ford also guest-blogged there and offered readers a chance to help him create a short story.
• SyFy Portal looks at Pets in Space.
• GeekAlerts boldly points us toward this old-school Star Trek Medical Tricorder Replica
• Topless Robot lists 6 Movie Stars Who Should Be Batman Villains. Interesting choices…

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1. SF Tidbits Part XV
2. SF Tidbits Part LXVIII

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