SF Tidbits for 6/12/08

• Interviews and Profiles:
  • ActuSf interviews Neal Asher (Shadow of the Scorpion). [via Locus Online]
  • Simon & Schuster’s “Simon Says” Podcast features Mark Alpert talking about his tech-thriller Final Theory.
  • The Onion A.V. Club interviews Cory Doctorow (Little Brother).
  • Neth Space has 5 questions for S.L. Farrell (A Magic of Twilight).
  • SciFi Wire profiles Melinda Snodgrass, author of The Age of Reason.
  • Bloggasm interviews Jay Lake about his cancer blogging and how it plays into his science-fictional worldview for technological transparency.
• Free Fiction:
  • At FeedBooks:
    • “Daughters of Doom” by Herbert B. Livingston (1939).
    • “The Day of the Boomer Dukes” by Frederik Pohl (1956).
    • “The Deadly Daughters” by Winston K. Marks (1958).
    • “The Delegate from Venus” by Henry Slesar (1958).
    • “The Devil’s Asteroid” by Manly Wade Wellman (1941).
  • The latest episode of StarShipSofa features Jeff VanderMeer’s “Secret Life”, an article by Amy Sturgis, Flash Fiction by David Brin, and poetry by Bruce Boston.
• Way back when, the Science Fiction Book Club blog used to run a feature where authors talked about their books. Orbit has picked up this torch by offering guest-posts by its authors. F’rinstance:
  • Pamela Freeman talking about Blood Ties.
  • Fiona McIntosh talking about Goddess.
  • Brian Ruckley talking about Bloodheir.
  • Sean Williams talking about Saturn Returns.
• Scholastic Report: Kids Still Read for Fun–Teens, Less So.
• Please welcome back to the blogosphere: M. John Harrison! (The list of sf/f authors who blog has been updated.) [via Velcro City Tourist Board]
• John Picacio offers artist suggestions for the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award.
• Good cause: The Strange Horizons 2008 Fund Drive.
• No Time for the Singularity by Karl Schroeder: “The technological singularity may be real, but who cares? By the time it happens, we’ll have won or lost our grand battle with fate.” Bummer. [via Boing Boing]
• Video: Kevin Maher takes a look at the dangerous – and sometimes deadly – movie sporting events we can expect to see in the not-too-distant future.
• Real Science: The International Space Station could soon be relaying messages secured using quantum entanglement. But…wouldn’t we already know if we could do it?
• Mmmmmm…Space and Nebula Wallpapers…
• io9 lists Six Astounding Young Adult Novels of the Pre-Potter Era (short version: The Rolling Stones by Robert Heinlein, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, The White Mountains by John Christopher, Sweetwater by Laurence Yep, Star Ka’at by Andre Norton, and Alan Mendelsohn the Boy from Mars by Daniel Pinkwater) and The Top Ten Most Realistic Planets in Science Fiction (short version: Miranda, Mongo, Vulcan, Naboo, Zanak, Ring World, Tollana, Krypton, Fyrine IV, and Camazotz).
• Cracked lists The 5 Most Evil Robots Ever Invented.
• The Consumerist lists 5 Thrifty Lessons From Post-Apocalyptic Novel The Road.

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