SF Tidbits for 7/16/08
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at
12:13 am
- More Cover Pr0n:
- Lou Anders is sharing a very cool promo card from artist Dave Seely.
- The British cover of Bad Monkeys. [via Torque Control]
- Interviews and Profiles:
- Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews James Patrick Kelly and Matthew Wayne Selznick.
- Concept Sci-fi interviews Walter Jon Williams (Implied Spaces).
- At Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer is talking about L. Timmel Duchamp
- Agony Column podcast-interviews Susan Palwick and Jay Lake.
- The latest episode of Cult Pop features interviews with Matt Arnold and Vernor Vinge.
- SFX interviews Jeffrey Thomas (Blue War).
- Wyrdsmiths interviews David Louis Edelman.
- Articulate interviews artist Shaun Tan.
- At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Jacqueline Carey, author of Kushiel’s Mercy.
- SciFi Scanner interviews Kirk DeMicco, director of Space Chimps.
- Edward Campion‘s The Bat Segundo Show is going on indefinite hiatus, after the 9 shows already produced.
- Free Fiction:
- Audio fiction @PodCastle: “Magnificent Pigs” by Cat Rambo, read by Matthew Wayne Selznick.
- @Feedbooks:
- “Arena” by Frederic Brown (1944)
- Prince Zaleski by M.P. Shiel (1895)
- One for the writers: Making a Writing Group Work by James Van Pelt.
- The latest issue of Matrix Online, the news and media magazine of the British Science Fiction Association, has been posted and features:
- Interviews with Bruce Sterling and Eric Brown.
- A George Mann editorial on Steampunk.
- A look at steampunk and its “soundtrack“.
- A look at the return of three classic British heroes.
- A look at 30 Days of Night
- A survey of the social networking phenomenon.
- A list of The Best 1950s SF Movies Ever!
- SF Diplomat decodes The Stross Formula. [also via Torque Control]
- Matt Staggs looks at Apocalyptic Literature and provides a nice reading list.
- Borders has added a new audiobook download service. [via Publishers Weekly]
- Discover Magazine lists the 10 Best Science Fiction Movie Endings. Good entries there…
- SF Humor: Asimov’s 30 Laws of Robotics.
- Something cool but not cool enough to own: this miniature Captain Kirk covered with Tribbles. [via Topless Robot]
- Wired grades Batman’s gear.
- I love these retro-sf-style posters to promote workplace safety. [via File 770]
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- SF Tidbits Part XVI
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Something cool but not cool enough to own: this miniature Captain Kirk covered with Tribbles
How about this Death Star tree ornament? Because nothing says “Merry Christmas, Peace on Earth” like planetary devastation!
Heh-heh…I like how it’s the partially-completed Death Star, so from far away it looks like a broken ornament hanging on the tree.