SF Tidbits for 7/25/08
By Matt |
Friday, July 25th, 2008 at
12:18 am
- Interview with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.
- Science fiction and fantasy that make you laugh.
- Free preview of Michael Jasper’s A Gathering of Doorways.
- The fight continuesover the estate of the late Andre Norton.
- One Wisconsin man’s struggle to make M.O.O.N.CON the state’s largest sci fi convention.
- Watch Cory Doctorow’s talk about privacy at the 2008 ALA conference. (Via Geeky Librarian)
- Comprehensive round-up of free book contests
- Read the first chapter of Matthew Hughes’ Hespira (Via Fantasy Book Critic)
- Jim C. Hines on “Getting Lucky”
- Midnight Never Come author Marie Brennan at OMNIVORACIOUS.
- Review: The Promise of the Wolves by Dorothy Hearst.
- Help Ben Peek help his friend out with cancer treatment.
- Here’s a list of genderbending SciFi
- io9 lists Opening Sentences From Science Fiction.
- Tor has a quick Q&A with Doctor Who Scribe, Steven Moffat, as does io9. (What? Still not watching Doctor Who? Sigh…check out this guide to Doctor Who for Beginners.
- Reminder: Tor offers mini-galleries showcasing sf cover artists…like this one by John Picacio.
- Scalzi@AMC: Science and History: Everything the Movies Tell You Is Wrong.
- Cover Pr0n: Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod.
- Fantasy Magazine interviews Ekaterina Sedia (The Alchemy Of Stone).
- Blasting bugs is more complicated than you think – The Guardian revisits Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. [via Bookninja]
- Neil Gaiman’s Top 10 New Classic Monsters.
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Ugh, most of those opening lines are terrible. I do, however, like “In the summer of his twelfth year — the summer the stars began to fall from the sky — the boy Isaac discovered that he could tell East from West with his eyes closed.”
That list does cover familiar ground. We talked about this 3 years ago. And then 2 years ago was the 100 Best First Lines from Novels, which had a few genre entries as well.