SF Tidbits for 8/14/08
By John DeNardo |
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 at
12:06 am
- Robot Dreams makes Oprah’s reading list for kids.
- Interviews and Profiles:
- @StarshipSofa: Alastair Reynolds. (Audio interview)
- @Scientific American: Clone Wars Director David Filoni.
- @Concept Sci-fi: Richard K. Morgan.
- @SFX: Summer Glau.
- Free Fiction:
- “Resistance” by Tobias S. Buckell (set in his Crystal Rain universe).
- @StarshipSofa podcast:
- “The Real Story” by Alastair Reynolds (short story)
- “What’s Expected Of Us” by Ted Chiang (flash fiction)
- “Making Robot Poets” by Greg Beatty (poetry)
- @FeedBooks:
- “Real Death” by Terry Hayman.
- “The Existential Cure” by Will McIntosh.
- “Better Sweets To Prove Than Sleep” by Lisa Mantchev.
- “Strike A Pose – Sturgis” by Ricardo Donnárd.
- @ManyBooks.net:
- “The Star Hyacinths” by James H. Schmitz
- “Pandemic” by Jesse F. Bone
- Free Fiction Sample: An excerpt from Charlie Huston’s upcoming fourth Joe Pitt Casebook, Every Last Drop. I’m looking forward to this one.
- Tor.com asks: How Do You Like Your Book Covers? [via The Art Department]
- Cover Pron: Tom Lloyd’s The Stormcaller: Book One of the Twilight Reign.
- Controversy of the day: Ain’t It Cool News recently pulled a negative review of Clone Wars at the demands of Lucasfilm.
- The other controversy of the day: Paul Jessup on the Generation Gap in SF. Crotchety Old Fan responds.
- The anthology Seeds of Change, edited by John Joseph Adams, get a website.
- Solar Flare asks: Are Science Fiction Short Stories Too Literary?
- Can you guess the title of James Wallace Harris’ favorite short fiction story?
- Nancy Kress has posted her reading list for Constructing Future Societies.
- John Scalzi on why you should care about Zoe’s Tale.
- More Scalzi: Sports of the Future Will Be Much More Violent Than Those at the Olympics.
- One for the writers: Agent Colleen Lindsay offers the dissection of the perfect query letter.
- Andrew Wheeler more to say about paid reviewing.
- Kevin Maher looks at The Influence of Superhero Style on Runway Fashions.
- Rocky Horror Picture Show gets the remake treatment.
- Universal options Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time. [via See What's in my Brain]
- George Lucas has insisted that the Star Wars movies are not science fiction.
- Real Science (video version): Harvard physicist Lisa Randall explains the concept of other worlds.
- Also from Big Think: Scientist (and Doctor Who fan) Dr. Des Etages says science fiction gives her a glimpse of what might be on the other side.
- Dabbled is a blog featuring drawings of robots. [via Science Fiction Brewed Fresh Daily]
- Pic: Heath Ledger as a psychopathic Ronald McDonald clown.
- Cool gadget: Cybertek Wings. (Thanks, Tim!)
- Lists:
- Tolkien, Hawking and Pratchett (3 times!) make The Telegraph‘s list of The 12 top titles that booksellers must always stock. [via Bookninja]
- @Great White Snark: The Top Five Awful Millennium Falcon Cakes. Mmm…cake…
- Via HobbySpace, Ken Murphy has assembled several themed reading lists aimes at younger readers:
- @The List Universe: 15 Memorable Alien Races in Science Fiction.
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