SF Tidbits for 8/17/08
By John DeNardo |
Sunday, August 17th, 2008 at
12:42 am
- Free Fiction:
- “A Brief Guide To Other Histories” by Paul McAuley, a Cowboy Angels story.
- @Escape Pod: “Fenneman’s Mouth” by Andy Duncan.
- SFF Audio lists Five Free Audio Favorites.
- See also; Futurismic’s Weekly Free Fiction listing.
- Interviews and Profiles:
- Tor podcast-interviews recent Hugo-winner Mary Robinette Kowal.
- @Neth Space: John Scalzi Answers 5 Questions.
- Gail Martin podcast-interviews Mike Lee.
- Here’s David G. Hartwell on his Hugo win for best Editor.
- James Nicoll rounds up the TOC’s for some upcoming Poul Anderson collections.
- Cover Pr0n: David Marusek (Counting Heads) shares the nice Paul Youll artwork for his 2nd novel, Mind Over Ship.
- Locus Online lists Locus Online News: 2008 Prometheus Awards winners
- The Art of Reading.
- The Cordwainer Smith website gets a face lift and an accompanying blog. [via The Crotchety Old Fan. Thanks, Fred!]
- Christopher Paul Carey has pictures from Farmercon 90, a convention for Philip José Farmer fans.
- Best Science Fiction Stories continues their posts of favorite favorite short stories with entries by Tinkoo and Greg Wickenhofer?
- Timecop Illustrates the Pitfalls of Time Travel.
- Lists:
- James Van Pelt lists Convention Dos and Don’ts.
- Artist Romina Espinosa lists her top 30 Sci-fi movies, with some hardline criteria about what makes the cut.
- @Mental Floss: Wacky Sci-Fi “Laws”.
- @Discover Magazine: The 10 Best Science Fiction Planets.
- @Topless Robot: The 10 Most Blatant Star Wars Rip-Offs.
- Kathryn Cramer lists 100+ writers who have never won a Hugo.
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- SF Tidbits for 3/2/07
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