• Two more Ray Bradbury tidbits in honor of his 88th birthday this week:
  • Cool Bradbury find of the week: Sindhu unearths 60 Greatest Science Fiction Shows Selected By Ray Bradbury, a record album (record album!) where Bradbury chooses from a slew of old time radio shows.
  • File 770 reports on Ray Bradbury's bookstore birthday celebration.


• Free Fiction:
  • Excerpt at FantasyBookSpot: After the Downfall by Harry Turtledove.
  • @Author website: "Grieve for a Man" by Tom Purdom.
  • @FeedBooks:
    • "The Jiminy Device" by Lisa Mantchev.
    • "Cycle Thieves" by Mark Ward.
  • Audio fiction:
    • @PodCastle: "What Dragons Prefer" by Dayle A. Dermatis, read by Loupe Savich.
    • @ClonePod:
      • "Incarnation Day" by Walter Jon Williams, read by Dani Cutler.
      • "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" by Neil Gaiman, read by Bruce McDonald.
      • "Alien Hunt" by James Hartley, read by Bruce McDonald.
      • "The Poisoned Chalice" by Brian Stableford, read by Bruce McDonald.
      • "Goblin Hunter" by Jim C. Hines, read by Bruce McDonald.


• Bill Crider has the skinny on a zombie musical in Houston.


• New art gallery at Tor.com: Steampunkster Eric Freitas.


• S.M. Duke is looking for Literary SF titles.


• Anatomy of an Internet discussion:
  1. Ian Sales says Don't Look Back in Awe when discussing the undeserving admiration given to many science fiction novels and short stories of earlier decades.
  2. Futurismic and io9 respond to Sales.
  3. Lou Anders responds to Futurismic.


• Wyrdsmiths shares a Steampunk for Dummies poster.


• Cool toy: a radio-controlled version of the Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday August 24, 2008 at 12:04 AM
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