SF Tidbits for 6/27/08

• Over at SciFi Scanner, John Scalzi asks: What Are the New SciFi Classics?
• Free Fiction:
  • Fantasy Book Spot has an excerpt of The Night Sessions by Ken Macleod. [via Jay Tomio]
  • “The Right Book” by Cory Doctorow, a short story about the next 150 years of book sales that appears in trade magazine The Bookseller. [via Craphound]
  • Cory Doctorow reads from Little Brother (part 2).
  • At FeedBooks:
    • Planetoid 127 by Edgar Wallace (1927)
    • Out of the Silence by Erle Cox (1919)
    • “The Missing Angel” by Erle Cox (1947)
    • “Star-Begotten” by H.G. Wells (1937)
  • Lots more free fiction is listed at QuasarDragon.
• Interviews:
  • PopMatters interviews Robert Silverberg . [via Locus Online]
  • Matt Staggs interviews Beth Adele Long, Lydia Millet, and Nisi Shawl.
  • Unreality SF interviews Richard Salter, editor of the forthcoming Doctor Who anthology Short Trips: Transmissions. [via Bowing to the Future]
• Joseph Malozzi has his book club picks for July: Cordelia’s Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (sf), The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente (fantasy), and The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns.
• Great Idea of the Week: Mindy Klasky has created the totally free Book Groups Wiki, where book groups can enter meeting info and authors can enter information about their availability.
• A New Chapter in Bookselling: Social Networking Sites.
• Norilana Books is publishing Vera Nazarian’s The Duke in His Castle, a “dark, lush, erotic fantasy novella in the vein of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast“.
• Speaking of whom: Nebula-nominated author Vera Nazarian has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.
• The nominees for the Janusz A. Zajdel Awards, honoring the most prestigious Polish science fiction, have been announced. (Thanks, Pawel!)
• Wired offers a gallery of the Best Robot Love Stories, From Wall-E to Weird Science.
• QuasarDragon lists Top Ten Films Available For Free Online (near the bottom of the post).
• Regularly Expressing lists 13 Things Learned From Reading Sci-Fi.
• The Onion A.V. Club lists A Summer Reading List for Nerds. [via Locus Online]
• Several genre titles made Cool Tools’ list of Life-Changing Books.
• Digital Plague author Jeff Somers lists Top Ten Reasons My Dystopian Vision of The Future Is Better Than Your Dystopian Vision Of The Future.

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1. SF Tidbits for 2/15/08
2. SF Tidbits for 3/6/08
3. SF Tidbits for 5/19/08
4. SF Tidbits for 6/3/08
5. SF Tidbits for 11/16/07

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