SF Tidbits for 6/7/08

• Heavy Reading: Check out John Kessel’s interesting 2004 essay Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender’s Game, Intention, and Morality. “The purpose of this paper is to examine the methods [Orson Scott]Card uses to construct this story of a guiltless genocide, to point out some contradictions inherent in this scenario, and to raise questions about the intention-based morality advocated by Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead. [via Gwenda Bond]
• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Nick DiChario, author of Valley of Day-Glo.
• eMusic interviews Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother.
• SciFi Scanner interviews Nash Edgerton, Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Stunt Double.
• SF Canada presents Phyllis Gotlieb with Lifetime Achievement Award
• Free Fiction: “Memory” (Part 14) by Jayme Lynn Blaschke
• Warren Ellis’ sci-fi comic Ocean is being adapted to film.
• “Science fiction isn’t escapist; it can help us envision how to make the world a better place.” So says io9 editor Annalee Newitz in her AlterNet article Using Sci-Fi to Change the World.
• According to SF Scope, online publisher E-Reads has acquired 32 out-of-print works by Harlan Ellison (Deathbird Stories and a host of others) to be published in e-book format and trade paperback via print on demand starting next month.
• Jake Seliger asks: Why does so little science fiction rise to the standards of literary fiction? Big Dumb Object responds.
• Eric Brown (author of Helix and Kéthani) has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.
• David Drake is in the process of licensing a Hammer’s Slammers board game to Mongoose Publishing.[via TexasBestGrok]
• Two words: Yoda Pizza.

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