SF Tidbits for 5/3/08

• Free Fiction:
  • Recently-free fiction at ManyBooks.net: “Hunters Out of Space” by Joseph Everidge Kelleam (1960).
  • Futurismic has “Solitude Ripples from the Past” by David Reagan.
  • Futurismic rounds up a gaggle of more free fiction – more than I can list here – so go check it out.
• Geoff Ryman talked about Interzone 216, the mundane sf issue, on Radio 4. You should ba able to “listen again” for 7 days after the original broadcast. [via TTA Press]
• Trek Nation interviews Keith R. A. DeCandido.
• Gail Z. Martin’s Ghost in the Machine podcast, features fantasy authors Emily Gee (Thief With No Shadow) on May 1 through 14, and Justin Gustainis (Black Magic Woman) May 15 through 31.
• Big Dumb Object has details on the recent press release regarding the aforementioned SF hall of fame inductees (Betty and Ian Ballantine for literature, William Gibson for literature, Richard M. Powers for art, and Rod Serling for film).
• David Langford’s Ansible #250 for May 2008 has been posted.
• Hollywood Physics: In their latest photo gallery, PopSci asks What Can Movies Teach Us About Space Travel?
• The finalists for The Shirley Jackson Awards – recognizing outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic – have been announced.
• io9 looks at the futuristic artwork of Stephan Martiniere.
• io9 lists The Cutest Science Fiction Sidekicks, And Why They Fail.

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