SF Tidbits for 4/8/08

• Interviews:
  • Adventures in Scifi Publishing talks with Robert Buettner, author of Orphan’s Journey.
  • Physicality of Words interviews Peter Watts (Blindsight).
  • The Book Swede interviews Karen Miller, author of Empress, the first book in the Godspeaker trilogy.
  • Bibliophile Stalker interviews Edward Champion of The Bat Segundo Show.
  • Edward Champion of The Bat Segundo Show, meanwhile, interviews Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku, who is promoting his new non-fiction book Physics of the Impossible.
  • The Fix interviews Sean Wallace, executive editor for Wildside Press and founder and senior editor of Prime Books.
  • SCI FI Weekly interviews Paolo Bacigalupi, author of Pump Six and Other Stories.
  • SciFi Wire profiles John G. Hemry, author of The Lost Fleet: Courageous.
  • I don’t speak German, but when this SPEX interview with Cory Doctorow is Google-translated to English, hilarity ensues: ” I can through the Internet, people around the world with my books. That I could not, I would have my books only on paper.” Spoken truer words never were.
• Free Fiction:
  • Jonathan Strahan points us to some free fiction by Gwyneth Jones, all from her Buonarotti sequence:
    • “TheTombWife“
    • “Saving Tiamaat“
    • “The Voyage Out“
    • “TheFulcrum“
  • Free Audio Fiction: Time Traveler Show has Mike Resnick reading “A Most Unusual Greyhound” and the Hugo-nominated “Distant Replay”.
• J.C. Hutchins, creator of the hugely successful 7th Son fiction podcast trilogy, has another ambitious project on the horizon: 7th Son: Obsidian, which “brings together the best storytellers in podcasting for one project, with one mission — to tell tales that shock, move, and entertain you … and reveal moments in the 7th Son universe that were merely hinted at in the original trilogy.” Contributors include Scott Sigler, Michael A. Stackpole, Tee Morris and others.
• Neal Asher (the Polity books) points us to this comprehensive Polity Encyclopedia (PDF link). [via Peripheral Vision]
• The website for the annual Best American Fantasy anthology announces the 2009 editions’ guest Editor: Kevin Brockmeier.
• Mental Floss asks: What Books Can’t You Put Down?
• Get Tuckerized! You can win a chance to have your name appear in a science fiction story in Michael A. Burstein’s upcoming collection from Apex publishing, I Remember the Future.
• From the world of publishing:
  • “Publisher Dorling Kindersley claims to have printed the most environmentally conscious series of books in the world” by using vegetable inks, 100% recycled card and ‘environmentally friendly’ glues.”
  • Ever wonder why it takes so long to get a book published? One word: Marketing.
• Real Science: Mike Brotherton looks at teleportation and Karl Schroeder looks for the invisibility of advanced civilizations.
• Wired shines some light on God’s Failed Sci-Fi Epic.
• SF Universe lists The Top 5 Giant Bug Movies.
• File Under: “If only that time and energy could have been used for the powers of good”. Check out this Minas Tirith Matchstick Model. [via Neatorama]
• I mostly approve of Fantasy & Sci-Fi Lovin’ Blog’s list of Movies in the Fantasy & Sci-Fi Hall of Shame, but to be fair to Xanadu, Olivia Newton John was a hottie.
• Things I Wish I Had Thought Of: Comparing cute, cuddly E.T. to the alien in John Carpenter’s The Thing.
• I’m thinkin’ Scotty would approve of this bottle opener in the shape of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

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