SF Tidbits for 7/30/08

• The diaries of George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, will begin to appear online and be freely available starting August 9th.
• Kelly Eskridge on “Reality Break” podcast
• Interview with David Louis Edelman
• Why do most Fantasy/SF authors avoid tours of the American South East?
• Cat Rambo’s “I Like Podcasts”
• The Other by Thomas Tryon available in paperback edition from Centipede Press
• How to Raise and Keep a Dragon
• 29 Literary Science Fiction Books You Should Read
• The Seven Biggest A$$hole Computers in Science Fiction
• Interview with Ann Vremont
• The Bear in Fantasy Literature (Besides Elizabeth)
• It’s Nancy Kress week?
• The Literary Brothel is bring Literary back
• Review: I, Zombie by Al Ewing
• Ekaterina Sedia at “Omnivoracious”
• Publishers now adding “Chick-Lit” style covers to books by women whether it’s appropriate or not
• Spate of Weird Books Announced
• More on literary tattoos (check out this serious “Fight Club” commitment)
• Praise continues for Jeffrey Ford’s The Drowned World
• Washington City Paper gets into the spirit of the Weird Tales spam contest
• Review: Vintage: A Ghost Story by Steve Berman
• Schedule change for Conflux Virtual Mini-Con
• Thoughts on Fabricio Gibaldi’s The War for Earth
• Book Vs. Movie: Wonder Boys
• The evolution of author marketing
• On the “how” of literature
• “Touched by a Vampire” teens and moms getting into “Twilight” books
• Cover of Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Vol. 3?
• At orbit: “What I learned at Comiccon“
• Review: Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy edited by William Schafer
• So, you ready for some “Earthquake Fiction” now?
• John Scalzi’s The Last Colony now out in paperback
• Biology in Science Fiction: Could We Evolve Into Iain Banks’ “Culture”?
• Fred @ TexasBestGrok has already completed his “365 short stories a year” project. Way to go, Fred!
• Free Fiction: “The Wind” by Edward Willett
• The Apollo Image Gallery [via Cynica-C]
• A gallery of J. Allen St. John covers. [via QuasarDragon]
• Are You a Teacher of Science Fiction?
• The Internal organs of Lightning McQueen
• Free Fiction: “Mars Girl” by Jeff Garrity.
• The Crotchety Old Fan lists The Top 150 Classic SF Writers.
• What to Expect from Eureka
• Attention Star Wars fans! Yahoo has posted Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailers and video clips [via Suvudu]
• Hulu – Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is free once again. [via ComicMix]
• Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy Headed to the Big Screen. No, really this time.

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