SF Tidbits for 5/30/08
By John DeNardo |
Friday, May 30th, 2008 at
12:11 am
- io9 lists 10 Books that Prove Science Fiction Just Got Harder, as in “hard sf”. (Cool = I own seven of them. Sad = I’ve read none of them.)
- Interviews:
- This week’s Studio 360 podcast features Harlan Ellison. (Link includes an uncut version.) And the Harlan sez: “I have never written science fiction.”
- John Scalzi drops by Joe Mallozzi’s blog to talk about his book The Android Dream.
- Locus online shares excerpts from the latest issue of Locus magazine, including interview snippets with Theodora Goss and Catherynne M. Valente.
- Free Fiction: Karen Burnham pointed me to a great resource for free science fiction: FeedBooks! Recent freebies include:
- “Chronalgia” by Richard Kadrey
- “Surfing the Khumbu” by Richard Kadrey
- “The Silk Road” by Richard Kadrey
- “The Mad Hatter” by Richard Kadrey
- “Dog Boys” by Richard Kadrey
- “Mementos” by Richard Kadrey
- “The Index of Refraction” by Richard Kadrey
- “The Street That Wasn’t There” by Clifford D. Simak
- Events:
- Paolo Bacigalupi, Tobias Buckell, Charles Coleman Finlay, Sandra McDonald, Paul Melko and Sarah Prineas will do a joint reading in Columbus, Ohio, on June 7th at 7 P.M. at the Barnes & Noble Bookseller, 1739 Olentangy River Rd. [via Jason Sanford]
- Blue Moon Rising is hosting this year’s Blog Like it’s the End of the World.
- Chris Jensen says: Be Prepared for Today’s Alien Video Hoax!
- Chris Roberson shares the short film The Saga of the Space Cowboy, a post-apocalyptic western. Obviously!
- Big Dumb Object lists 10 SF Facts That Require No Further Explanation. Some of them are brutally honest (“We will never get jetpacks”), and some are fightin’ words (“Star Wars is better than Star Trek”).
- However, to support BDO’s argument, I note here that Leonard Nimoy tops the list of 15 Celebrities Who Sang…But Shouldn’t Have.
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Obviously the authors of Glamorati have blocked William Shatner’s renditions of “Mr. Bojangles” and “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” from their childhood memories.
Good for them!
Um…we’ve had jet packs for over forty years now. They just aren’t that useful. but you can buy one here if you want: http://www.jetpackinternational.com/
The Studio 360 interview with Ellison is a hoot ‘n’ a holler. Well worth downloading and listening to. The guy really is a treasure.