SF Tidbits for 6/14/08

• J.G. Ballard talks to James Campbell at the Guardian. “I embraced surrealism – like a lover – and psychoanalysis, which closely abutted surrealism. Together, they represented what I wanted to do”…Science fiction was a “chance discovery. It touched a spark, but I never wrote the kind of SF that was typical of the time.”
• Fantasy Book Critic interviews Steven Erikson, author of the Malazan Empire novels).
• Free Fiction: “Memory” Part 15 by Jayme Lynn Blaschke.
• John Scalzi turns the blog mike over to Lewis Shiner.
• Dave Truesdale’s latest Off On A Tangent column at F&SF: The New Nostalgia: The Classic Pulp Story Revival: “We seem to see ‘new’ used to describe quite a lot of resurrected types of fiction from our genre’s past these days.”
• Farah Mendlesohn, blogging at The Inter-Galactic Playground which is dedicated to children’s science fiction, calls it quits.
• Maureen McHugh and Eleanor Arnason are wondering: What Is Going On With SF?
• David Dvorkin has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.
• Jeff and Ann VanderMeer look at the artwork of Bruce Jensen.
• Cover Pr0n: At Subterranean Press: Throne of Jade and His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik.
• George R.R. Martin gives us an update on HBO’s Song of Ice & Fire adaptation.
• Real Science: On June 2, at the American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis, a group led by Mike Brotherton at the University of Wyoming released new Hubble Space Telescope images that show the process in detail.
• What happens in The Happening? Check out Biology in Science Fiction’s spoilery post What Kills Everybody in The Happening?
• Hulk Tidbits:
  • SciFi Scanner interviews Incredible Hulk Screenwriter Zak Penn.
  • Kenneth Johnson lists all the methods used to get Banner to transform into the Hulk in the Hulk TV show. [via James Nicoll]
  • Check out Edward Norton’s appearance on The Jimmy Kimmel Show. “Ow, you hurt my belly!”

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