SF Tidbits for 5/17/08
By John DeNardo |
Saturday, May 17th, 2008 at
12:40 am
- Eddie Murphy is set to star in another adaptation of Richard Matheson’s The Incredible Shrinking Man. No…really.
- Free Fiction: To Begin, the Gods by Will Shetterly.
- CNN interviews Iain M. Banks. [via Locus Online]
- This Week In Geek has an exclusive interview with Wil Wheaton. [via SFFaudio]
- Peter Hodges interviews S. M. Stirling (In the Courts of the Crimson Kings ).
- SciFiDimensions podcasts Scott Sigler, author of Infected.
- SF Scope lists the contents of Ben Bova’s upcoming lighter-side-of-sf collection Laugh Lines, which collects 2 novels and 6 stories.
- Charlie Huston, author of the very entertaining Joe Pitt vampire novels, lists his favorite writers. [via Orbit Books]
- AbeBooks lists The 10 most expensive yearbooks ever sold on AbeBooks. The high school yearbook for Frank Herbert makes the list.
- L. Ron Hubbard’s Mission Earth made Mental Floss’ list of The 10 Longest Novels Ever. Ummm…isn’t that a series of 10 books? Do they mean Battlefield Earth?
- Nathan Zeldes notes the growing obesity of science fiction (Read: Padded Fiction).
- At io9, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer profiles Artist Ian Miller.
- Cinematical shares some more Dark Knight posterage…this one featuring Heath Ledger’s Joker.
- Boing Boing points us to this tin toy from 1958: Laika the astro-dog.
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Padded fiction. Bulging books.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Baxter and Reynolds and Webber and the rest, but, they write long, long, long books.
Just finished rereading Rama: a whole first contact novel in under 300 pages.
Yes, L. Ron Hubbard’s Mission Earth was published as a 10 book series but he wrote it and intended it as a single, long, long novel. He even made up a word for it meaning 10 book novel. Oddly enough the idea of the ten book novel never took off with other writers.