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- Forbidden Planet has Part 2 of an interview with Alan Moore. (See also: Part 1.)
- Gail Martin podcast-interviews Mark Chadbourn (The Burning Man).
- Free Fiction:
- "With Airship and Submarine by Harry Collingwood.
- Audio fiction at Beam Me Up: "Tide Line" by Elizabeth Bear and "The Frozen One" by Tim Pratt.
- The latest Starship Sofa features Fiction ("The Last Science Fiction Writer" by Allen Steele), poetry ("Time Travel Verb Tenses" by Laurel Winter), Flash Fiction ("Downtown" by John Kessel), and Fact (Science News by Jim Campanella).
- The latest issue of On Spec features fiction by Tony Pi, Marissa K. Lingen, Marion Bernard, Tyler Keevil, Claude Lalumière, and Steve Stanton. The cover is by Luke Ramsey.
- Kevin Maher of the SciFi Dept. hits Broadway to talk about classic SciFi films that have made the leap to live theater.
- SFX magazine posts reader poll results of Top 100 Fantasy/SF Authors.
- B&N's Paste Magazine lists the 10 Best Sci-Fi TV Shows.
- The Telegraph just published the results of a poll conducted by Play.com on the Top 50 Books of All Time. Galley Cat lists The Top 10, which sports some genre titles.
- lists "Naval" Science Fiction books worth reading (scroll down a little).
- Bad news...I've crunched the numbers every which way, and the Asteroid Impact Calculator says we're doomed. Doomed, I say! [via tech rivet]
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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday June 19, 2008 at 12:05 AM
© 2008 SF Signal
Um, the link to On Spec is for their blog, which they shut down, I think. Try www.onspec.ca. Also, the cover and the authors you're listing are for the Winter 2005 issue (I knew this in advance because I was still AD, and I got Kazu to do that great cover. See here: http://www.onspec.ca/back/2005.htm). The news issue's contents and cover art and artist are on the main site.
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Posted by Derryl Murphy on Thursday June 19, 2008 at 11:23 AM
D'oh! I saw this come up on a newsfeed and assumed newness. My fault. I've updated the text above. Thanks, Derryl!
Posted by John on Thursday June 19, 2008 at 12:31 PM
The Impact Calculator is tres cool, but that map at the end: what is that? It sorta looks like England, with Scotland, Wales, and even Cornwall lopped off, but if that's true, then where are London, Birmingham, Newcastle, etc. etc.?
Posted by Fredosphere on Thursday June 19, 2008 at 12:50 PM
>> then where are London, Birmingham, Newcastle, etc.
They've been decimated by the impact. 
Posted by John on Thursday June 19, 2008 at 1:05 PM
"With Airship and Submarine"...
"Site is down for repairs."
Oh, my, I hope it ain't for long and that really is the case. I recall Blackmask having that message during litigation!
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Thursday June 19, 2008 at 2:12 PM
Fired this off to ChrisW, keeper of the naval SF list. Might as well inflict it on others...
I saw your naval SF list on SF signal -- interesting, with some books to look for.
May I now recommend Walter Jon Williams' DREAD EMPIRE FALLS trilogy: The Praxis, The Sundering, and Conventions of War.
Very much influenced by Patrick O'Brian, I would guess. I'm an O'Brian fan too, and I loved these.
I also liked that if you grant the existence of wormholes and aliens, the author relies on few other fantastic assumptions. On long long trips between wormholes, for example, his crew has to deal with several g's of acceleration.
Can't recommend them often enough, which is why I'm grabbing a stranger by the lapel...
Posted by Tom Marcinko on Thursday June 19, 2008 at 6:03 PM
>> >> then where are London, Birmingham, Newcastle, etc.
>> They've been decimated by the impact.
And to think I've planned an English vacation this summer. This is going to be deucedly awkward.
Posted by Fredosphere on Monday June 23, 2008 at 4:08 PM