SF Tidbits for 6/9/08
By John DeNardo |
Monday, June 9th, 2008 at
12:15 am
- The Agony Column podcast-interviews Karen Joy Fowler (Wit’s End).
- Recent NPR broadcasts feature JK Rowling’s Harvard commencement speech and Ursula K. Le Guin’s You Must Read This column about Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. [via Locus Online]
- Times Online profiles Terry Pratchett. “Author and Alzheimer’s sufferer Terry Pratchett tells Bryan Appleyard how he is controlling the progress of the disease.” [via Matt Staggs guest-blogging at Jeff VanderMeer's Ecstatic Days]
- The Courier-Journal has a short Q&A with Ray Bradbury: “So when I was 12 years old, I fell in love with Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Carter, ‘Warlord of Mars,’ and when I got a toy typewriter I wrote my first story.” [also via Matt Staggs. OK, two links from Staggs. So what?]
- Here’s some audio of George R.R. Martin reading the passage he wrote for the book The Faces of Fantasy. [also via Matt Staggs. Maybe three links from the same source is pushing it?]
- Library Journal has an interesting article on urban Fantasy which includes a very nice Urban Fantasy Reading List. [also via Matt Staggs. Right. Now we've passed into the realm of theft.
] - This has to be the worst Batman squirt toy ever.
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- SF Tidbits for 6/10/06
- SF Tidbits Part XXXI
- SF Tidbits for 8/5/07
- SF Tidbits for 1/26/06
- Terry Pratchett Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s
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“I went to Mars when I was 12 years old, and I never came back.”
I almost cried reading that line. Bradbury is my hero, and that interview made my day. And then the batman toy ruined it.
Thanks for the links!
It is often said that only Batman can undo the joy Bradbury brings.
Glad to be of service.