SF Tidbits for 8/15/08

• Interviews and Profiles:
  • SciFi Wire profiles Karl Schroeder, author of the “Newtonian space opera” Pirate Sun, the 3rd book in his Virga series.
  • @The Agony Column: a post-Denvention interview with Lou Anders, Editorial Director of Pyr.
  • @The Dragon Page: Charles Stross.
  • @Marooned (a Mars in SF blog): Paul Mantee, starred in cult film Robinson Crusoe on Mars.
• Free Fiction:
  • @Seeds of Change website: “The Future by Degrees” by Jay Lake.
  • @FeedBooks: “The Rivers Of Eden” by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold.
  • @FeedBooks: “His Whore The Vector” by David McGillveray.
  • @ManyBooks.net: “Next Door, Next World” by Robert Donald Locke.
  • @Pseudopod: “Geist: by Chandler Kaiden (horror).
• Cheryl Morgan captures Denvention’s 20 Essential Books of the Past 20 Years panel; Niall Harrison summarizes. Karen Burnham number-crunches. [via Locus Online]
• Hacked! Tor.com…
• Jo Walton reviews Karl Schroeder’s Lady of Mazes.
• David Louis Edelman knows what authors want from reviewers.
• Suvudu has a set of videos showing Greg Bear talking about his latest book (City at the End of Time), how science fiction had its beginnings and how it transformed into what we know today, and how Tolkien is tied to science fiction and H.G. Wells.
• Author Jeff VanderMeer is blogging politics.
• Daryl Gregory demands his Sean Stewart (The Resurrection Man, The Night Watch, Mockingbird, Galveston).
• @Voyages Extraordinaires: A History of Steampunk: Part III – The Birth of Steampunk
• Have you read QuasarDragon proprietor Dave Thackett’s favorite short story?
• Audible.com goodies:
  • Neil Gaiman voices the introduction to Fritz Leiber’s classic Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser stories.
  • Orson Scott Card explains how Ray Bradbury makes the ordinary extraordinary in Something Wicked This Way Comes.
  • This month’s guest editor is S. M. Stirling.
• Fans of Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance books may be interested in the online game Vroengard Academy and the current sweepstakes promotion.
• Firefly‘s Shepherd Book to get his own comic. [via Stone Dead Parrot]
• Star Wars Math: Lego + Star Wars + Chess = Awesome.
• Star Wars Science: Clones, The Force and a Galaxy of Humanoids
• Pic: Space Mummies Attack!
• Lists:
  • @SciFi Now: 10 Best SciFi Mentors. [via Whedonesque]
  • @Topless Robot: 10 Reasons No One Cares About Wonder Woman

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