SF Tidbits for 7/31/08

By Matt | Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 12:20 am

A review of Mike Resnick’s Stalking the Unicorn and Stalking the Vampire.
Cool excerpt from a work in progress by Jonathan Wood.
Rick Kleffel interviewed at Omnivoracious.
New writers in SF: Ted Kosmatka.
A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys: Or, a post on fallen “heroes” and fantasy.
News on Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy movie.
Geek-off: Foundation vs. Robocop.
On reading Jeffrey Ford’s The Shadow Year.
Win Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet, signed by author Gregory Frost.
Starship Sofa Aural Delights #35K features Jeff Carlson, Spider Robinson and Bruce Boston.
Some more examples of worldbuilding.
LA Times book review editor Steve Wasserman on internet book coverage.
Andrzej Sapkowski loves cats.
Review: The Magician and the Fool by Barth Anderson.
Ethics in Science Fiction.
Cory Doctorow: Illegal Filesharing: A Suicide Note from the Music Industry.
Literary Darwinists? (via Bookninja).
Review: The Leather Maiden by Joe R. Lansdale.
James Wood isn’t afraid of literature’s favorite sons.
Feminism and Fantasy Novels.
Review: The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell.
Review: The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa.
Will Blogs Save Books?
Chris Roberson to write Fables spin-off series.
High school teacher has a really solid list of SF recommendations.
Interview with J. Scott Savage.
“Exactly two modern authors are doing interesting things with the genre and producing good writing. Those are George RR Martin…and Terry Pratchett.”
San Antonio’s Macondo Libre festival.
Has Myths Over Miami been debunked yet?
Review: The Creator’s Map by Emilio Calderon.
Interview with Keith Gray.
Interview with Rick Kleffel.
Adventures in SciFi Publishing features Neil Gaiman.
The Future And You features Catherine Smith, Bruce Gehweiler, Mike McPhail, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Warren Buff, Shannon Souvinette and her daughter Elaina, Shannon Presley, Klon Newell, and David Benedict.
io9 offers The Sci-Fi Mixtape of Doom.
Cinematical has the Terminator: Salvation teaser poster.
SciFi Scanner’s SciFi Dept. sets it’s sights on Dark City.
Free Audio Fiction: “The Exiles Club” by Lord Dunsany. [via QuasarDragon]
Scott Marlowe knows When To Stop Reading Short Stories.
Suvudu has video of a Naomi Novik Q&A.
Tor Podcast: Daniel Abraham interviews Melissa Snodgrass.
Free Fiction: Black Gate issue #12.
Dan Dos Santos paints Brandon Sanderson’s Warbreaker.
15 Classic Doctor Who Stories for New Fans.
The Brain Trust: The 24 Smartest TV/Movie Characters.

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