SF Tidbits for 7/24/08

• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Greg Egan
• Interview with David Schwartz, author of Superpowers.
• Randy Nakamura: Steampunk’d, or Humbug by Design. (Thanks, John!)
• Free audio fiction at the latest Starship Sofa!
• Hal Duncan offers “Notes on Strange Fiction: Magic“.
• Seattle attempting to lure WorldCon with “green” appeal.
• The Dark Knight, the War on Terror, and Science Fiction’s Moral Authority.
• What’s in the latest issue of Weird Tales?
• How publishers spot the next big sellers.
• Doctor donates classic sci fi collection to university library.
• Christopher Priest’s Top 10 Slipstream Books.
• China Mieville’s Top 10 Weird Fiction Books.
• Sitting down for writing tips with Neil Gaiman.
• Here’s Ellen Datlow’s Introduction to the Nebula Awards Showcase 2009
• John Scalzi: “Just in case you thought hand-wringing over science fiction was an English language thing“.
• A fantasy version of Godwin’s Law.
• Win a copy of Terry Brooks’ The Genesis of Shannara.
• The life-cycle of a trope: Sci Fi’s tragedy of the commons?
• Bruce Sterling to keynote at Austin GDC.
• Jeremiah Tolbert asks, “What are some of your favorite bad 80′s SF films?”
• Specimen number six from Jeffrey Thomas.
• Cool art at Avalanche Software Art Blog.
• Newsvine lists SciFi books that ought to be movies
• David Drake lists joke book covers. [via TexasBestGrok]
• The Evangelical Outpost lists 50 Favorite Works of Imaginative Literature
• Cinemaroll lists 5 Great Science Fiction Villains
• Paolo Bacigalupi: How to write a short story – by throwing away a short story
• Topless Robot lists The Top 10 Misfired Sci-Fi TV Shows of the ’90s

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