SF Tidbits for 5/9/08
By John DeNardo |
Friday, May 9th, 2008 at
12:05 am
- Apex shows off the really nice artwork for the latest issue.
- Interzone posts their 2007 Readers’ Poll Results. (Winning story: “Ack-Ack Macaque” by Gareth Lyn Powell.)
- Geoff Ryman’s recent BBC Radio appearance is available as MP3s. [via Big Dumb Object]
- Post-Weird Thoughts interviews Ian McDonald. On Brasyl: “I’d been wanting to do something that expressed, in human terms, the reality of the Everett Many-Worlds interpretation, and, as I said above, Brasil seemed the country that best expressed it.”
- J.M. McDermott interviews sf author Mary Robinette Kowal about her puppeteering.
- MSSV has a great summary of a recent talk by Neal Stephenson at a symposium on Science Fiction as a Literary Genre at Gresham College.
- Wil Wheaton speaks out about the upcoming Star Trek film: “…if this ‘reinventing’ — which is such a loaded term in this post-Episode One world (5-19-99 never forget!) — extends to some of the fundamentals of the Star Trek mythos, and if [J.J. Abrams] wants to make Star Trek more like Star Wars, we could be looking at the biggest geekriot in history.
- John Scalzi is now blogging at AMC. Here’s his first article, Is Guillermo del Toro the Right Man for The Hobbit?
- Wired has the scoop on the anime Batman.
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Thank You so much for the link about Gotham Knight! It looks amazing and I can’t wait to see it.