SF Tidbits for 7/8/08
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 at
12:12 am
- Cover Pr0n: John Joseph Adams shows off the cool covers for his zombie anthology The Living Dead. Apparently, Irene Gallo is one of the zombies! (John Joseph Adams also posted the key to the people on the cover.)
- Free Fiction:
- @Strange Horizons: “Marsh Gods” by Ann Leckie.
- @Subterranean Online: “Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge” by Mike Resnick.
- The premiere issue of Concept Sci-Fi features fiction from Peter F. Hamilton, James Hartley and others.
- Pete Tzinski has launched Edge of the Universe, a network of serialized fiction. Monday through Friday, a new story goes up in various different series.
- Interviews and Profiles:
- The Bat Segundo Show has a podcast interview with Thomas M. Disch, the last before his recent death.
- Enter the Octopus interviews Rick Klaw.
- Agony Column has a panel discussion with Carol Emshwiller, Pat Murphy and Terry Bisson.
- @Subterranean Online: Mike Resnick: An Appreciation by Nancy Kress.
- Concept Sci-fi interviews Nick Sagan.
- About interviews Sarah Hall about global warming, female utopias and gender roles. [via Torque Control]
- Physicality of Words interviews Jo Walton. [via Torque Control]
- Video: Iain M. Banks shows us where he writes.
- Locus Online has posted a lengthy obituary for Thomas M. Disch.
- “I create gods all the time – now I think one might exist,” says Terry Pratchett.
- Unintentional Irony asks: Does Science Fiction (Still) Matter? “…it doesn’t really look like SF is currently the place where someone with something to say goes to say it…”
- Richard K. Morgan starts his guest-blogging stint at Omnivoracious.
- Douglas Smith has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.
- Solar Flare thoroughly analyzes U.S. Presidents In Science Fiction.
- Gabriel McKee looks at A Brief History of Plato’s Cave in Science Fiction.
Related posts:
- SF Tidbits for 7/25/06
- SF Tidbits for 5/8/08
- SF Tidbits for 4/18/07
- SF Tidbits for 1/1/08
- [UPDATED] RIP: Thomas M. Disch
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Neil Gaiman grumbled about the dippy heading on the top of that Terry Pratchett article in the Daily Mail.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/06/hollys-birthday-post.html
And the first paragraph, as Neil points out, is wonderful. As follows:
“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that THEY exist.”
(It bothers me a great deal that Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer’s…)
…
P.S., My, does Pete Tzinski’s Edge of the Universe sound like a brilliant place to visit.
(thankyew for the mention)