SF Tidbits for 7/2/08

• Interviews and Profiles:
  • Night Shade Books interviews Walter Jon Williams, author of Implied Spaces.
  • The latest podcast of The Future And You features Kevin J. Anderson.
  • Matt Staggs has 5 questions for Ekaterina Sedia (The Alchemy of Stone).
  • The Fix interviews Cat Rambo, co-editor of Fantasy Magazine.
  • At Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer profiles Jack O’Connell, author of The Resurrectionist.
  • Big Dumb Object interviews Tim Etchells (The Broken World).
  • At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Sarah Beth Durst, author of Out of the Wild.
  • John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Nancy Kress, author of Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories and Dogs.
  • There’s also an interview with Nancy Kress at the new Nebula Awards website.
• Free Fiction:
  • Check out Night Shade’s download page for links to his Nebula Award-winning “The Green Leopard Plague“. (There’s also an excerpt for Williams’ Implied Spaces.)
  • Tobias Buckell has posted an excerpt from his upcoming book Sly Mongoose.
  • PodCastle offers “The Grand Cheat” by Hilary Moon Murphy.
  • ChiZine offers up “Good Night” by Richard Larson.
  • Futurismic offers up “Maquech” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
  • @FeedBooks: “Heat Island” by Richard Kadrey.
  • @ManyBooks.net: “Proteus Island” by Stanley G. Weinbaum.
  • @ManyBooks.net: “The Clue of the Silver Key” by Edgar Wallace.
  • QuasarDragon rounds up free fiction from A.R. Yngve.
  • Gareth L. Powell has written Ten Thousand Words of Free Fiction.
  • Besides poetry and other features, Helix #9 offers a nice lineup of free fiction:
    • “The Bitrunners” by Tina Connolly.
    • “Dead Silent” by Leah Cypess.
    • “Lusts of the Cat Queen: A Dash Manning Adventure” by Melanie Fletcher.
    • “The Mermaids’ Tea Party” by Samantha Henderson.
    • “Break the Vessel” by Vylar Kaftan.
    • “An Act of Conviction” by Ruth Nestvold.
    • “The Kennel Club” by Jennifer Pelland.
• Locus Online posts:
  • The contents of the July 2008 issue of Locus Magazine.
  • Cory Doctorow’s column: Nature’s Daredevils: Writing for Young Audiences: “YA SF is gigantic and invisible. The numbers speak for themselves: a YA bestseller is likely to be moving ten times as many copies as an adult SF title occupying the comparable slot on the grownup list.”
• Two-time British Fantasy Award-winning author Mark Chadbourn has signed a six-book deal with US publisher Pyr. The six books are comprised of two separate fantasy sequences: one beginning with The Swords of Albion and one beginning with Age of Misrule.
• A new themed audio anthology is headed your way and it includes novella-length fiction by John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, and Karl Schroeder. What a stellar lineup!
• Mindy Klasky has updated her website.
• Wired: Planning a successful solar eclipse trip involves specialized maps, astronomical charts, statistical weather data, GPS and optical gear…
• The Art Department looks at Wall-E-ish magazine covers. Mmmm…retro robots…
• SciFi Scanner asks: Will Hancock Join the Ranks of Superhero Comedy Greats?
• Great White Snark answers the question: Top Ten: What Would Wonder Woman Twitter? (“Sometimes I feel ridiculous flying the invisible jet. Like a mime doing a really good ‘driving the car’ impression.”)

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