SF Tidbits for 7/29/08

• You can own Marty McFly’s hoverboard! …For a mere $30,000 (USD). “Hello! McFly! Where am I gonna get that kind of money?” [via Fanboy]
• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @ComicMix: Wil Wheaton (part 3): “We have treated censorship as a network error to be routed around.” (See also Parts one and two.)
  • @Publishers Weekly: Ellen Datlow: “I’ve been promoting my books as much as possible online, making sure that the publicist sends out review copies to bloggers as well as traditional reviewers.”
  • @Bibliophile Stalker Ted Kosmatka. “…stories with a speculative element have always seemed more vital to me. As a writer now, I’ve found that science fiction allows you incredible freedom to tackle the big problems from oblique angles.”
  • The Daily Herald profiles Frederik Pohl and Arthur C. Clarke (The Last Theorem).
  • @The Nebula Awards website: Sarah Beth Durst.
• Justina Robson talks about Doctor Who at BBC Radio.
• Several unfinished works of Philip Jose Farmer are being completed by collaborator Christopher Paul Carey, Tracy Knight, Paul Spiteri, and Win Scott Eckert.
• Alan Dean Foster was named the Scribe Award Grandmaster by the The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. [via Locus Online]
• Andy Remic (War Machine) is going to be on the radio.
• Publisher Solaris has launched a Facebook page.
• Ellen Datlow announces the winners of the KGB FF raffle, which generated enough money to keep the series viable for two more years.
• Cover Pr0n: Matt Cheney shares the cover of Best American Fantasy 2008. Wolves driving motorcycles…what will they think of next?
• Free Fiction:
  • @Subterranean Online: “Like Father” by John Farris and “Big Man: a Fable” by Joe R. Lansdale.
  • @Strange Horizons: “Called Out to Snow Crease Farm” by Constance Cooper.
  • @ManyBooks.net: “Security” by Ernest M. Kenyon. [via QuasarDragon]
• Free Audio Fiction:
  • @Librivox: King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard. [via SFFaudio]
  • @CrapHound: “The Super-Man and the Bugout” by Cory Doctorow.
  • @Podcastle: “Illuminated Dragon” by Sarah Prineas.
• WebUrbanist rounds up some Creative Steampunk Art, Design and Fashion. Sweet.
• My generation’s Shazam never looked like this. [via SciFi Scanner]
• From a Sci-Fi Standpoint shares 2 video galleries of Heavy Metal covers.
• Here’s a gallery of Doc Savage covers where Doc is featured with various cultural icons (like Dracula, Gort, the Martians from War of the Worlds…) [via Website at the End of the Universe, who also links to a site that's reviewing the entire Doc Savage canon.]
• Lists:
  • @The List Universe: Top 10 Creepiest Tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
  • @ Discover Magazine: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Aliens.
  • @Topless Robot: Mark Hamill’s 10 Greatest Post-Star Wars Roles.

Filed under: Tidbits

Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!