SF Tidbits for 8/13/08
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 at
12:50 am
- Neal Stephenson explains the name of his new novel Anathem.
- Free Fiction:
- Steampunk Comic @Wowio: Sky Pirates of Valendor, issues one, two and three. [via QuasarDragon]
- “Push Patterns” by Jay Campbell.
- Also: Keep your eye of Futurismic’s FeedBook feed.
- Audio fiction @Maria Lectrix: “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath” by H.P. Lovecraft, Parts 10 and 11. (Start here)
- @PodCastle: “Cup and Table” by Tim Pratt.
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @Reality Break Podcast: Kelley Eskridge.
- @Writers and Their Soundtracks: Hal Duncan (Vellum and Ink)
- @Jeri Smith-Ready’s LiveJournal: Gregory Frost (Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet).
- @The Nebula Awards website: Vera Nazarian (Compass Rose).
- Lois McMaster Bujold’s WorldCon 2008 Guest of Honor Speech.
- Interesting Reads:
- @Voyages Extraordinaires: A History of Steampunk: Part II – The Victorian Atomic Age
- @The Millions: “Why So Serious?” Batman and the Intellectuals
- @Pyr-o-mania: SF Makes You Crazy by Mark Chadbourn.
- @Torque Control: Who wins Nebulas?
- Locus Online lists Other Worldcon Award Winners.
- Can you guess the title of Jason Sanford’s favorite science fiction story?
- Futurismic re-opens to fiction submissions.
- A slow cure for book abuse: “I stand up and confess to a sordid, needy addiction to reading to escape the world rather than engage with literature.”
- Help EOS choose the design of Close Encounters by Katherine Allred.
- Sci-fi Cover Art Becomes Less Skiffy.
- We get a lot of hits through StumbleUpon. For those who need pointers, here’s How To Use StumbleUpon To Find SciFi Websites.
- Heroic Fantasy and Ethnic Identity: Conan, Elric, Drizzt and Social Prejudice.
- Is Zero the Hutt The First Gay Alien In Star Wars History?
- Cinema Blend reveals Why No One Cares About Animated Star Wars.
- Pic: Zombie Playground by Jason Chan.
- Lists:
- @Stone Dead Parrot: 9 Unforgettable Scenes from Lord of the Rings.
- @Wired/GeekDad: 10 Geeky Movies That Should Have Been Great, but Weren’t. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow…good call.
- @rixonology: Psychological science fiction films.
- Indecent proposal…in spaaaace! If you had permission from your spouse, who would be on your Sci-Fi bonk list?
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- SF Tidbits for 5/25/07 – Special Star Wars Edition!
- Top 10 SF Signal Posts for October 2006
- SF Tidbits for 8/8/08
- SF Tidbits for 8/9/08
- SF Tidbits for 5/4/07
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First gay character in Star Wars history? Sounds like a stereotype to me. Didn’t Lucas learn his lesson from Jar Jar? Leron from Gurren Lagaan is a stereotype as well, but his awesomeness makes up for it.