SF Tidbits for 6/4/08

• Cover Pr0n:
  • The multi-talented (I get a nickel every time I say that) Lou Anders shares the way-cool Stephan Martiniere cover for David Louis Edelman’s MultiReal.
  • Adam Roberts shows off the cool new cover for the mass-market paperback edition of Splinter.
• Interviews and Profiles
  • Illusion TV interviews LQ Jones, actor/director of A Boy and His Dog, the 1975 Don Johnson film based on the Harlan Ellison short story.
  • A Dribble of Ink interviews Paul Kearney (The Monarchies of God, The Ten Thousand).
  • At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Rob Rogers, author of Devil’s Cape.
  • Fantasy author Gail Z. Martin’s Ghost in the Machine podcast welcomes authors Jeffrey Thomas, Mark Chadbourn, David B. Coe, Misty Massey and Faith Hunter.
  • ActuSf interviews David Marusek (Counting Heads and Getting to Know You).
  • Stephen Euin Cobb’s latest The Future And You podcast features Gary Jones (Stargate SG-1), authors Mike Resnick and David B. Coe, and the editor of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Edmund R. Schubert.
• Matt Staggs is guest-blogging over at Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days, and he’s looking for questions that sf/f characters might ask of an advice columnist.
• The latest issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction includes an interview with Lois McMaster Bujold; articles from Daniel M. Kimmel and Nader Elhefnawy; Essays by Carole Ann Moleti, Elizabeth Barrette and Ruth Nestvold; Criticism by Robert Bee and reviews of Scott Sigler’s Infected, John Scalzi’s The Last Colony, Ted Chiang’s “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”, and other short fiction.
• Free Fiction: io9 is hosting a “Revolt in the Stars,” a novella [in PDF] written by L. Ron Hubbard about the great lord Xenu. [via SciFi Scanner]
• A team of more than 50 international academics have named Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as the science fiction film with the most realistic vision of the future of mankind.
• Meanwhile, Peggy at Biology in Science Fiction reviews the A&E version of The Andromeda Strain and rips it a proverbial new one.
• I might have linked to this before, but can you blame me for double-dipping at a website called Babes in Space?

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