SF Tidbits for 8/19/08

• Free Fiction:
  • @Subterranean Online: “Kilimanjaro” by Mike Resnick, the latest story set in the multiple award-winning Kirinyaga universe.
  • @Author website: Of the Night by Cliff Burns.
  • @Strange Horizons: “Sex with Ghosts” by Sarah Kanning.
  • @Apex: “Through Thy Bounty” by Lucy A. Snyder
  • @ManyBooks.net: “Planetoid 127” by Edgar Wallace.
  • @Guardian: “Poison” by Henrietta Rose-Innes.
  • Audio fiction @Transmissions From Beyond: “Longing For Langalana” by Mercurio D. Rivera
• Interviews and Profiles:
  • @Publishers Weekly’s Genreville: Elizabeth Bear.
  • @Blogging the Muse: Ken Scholes.
  • Podcast: Galen Beckett discusses the influences that led him to write his Gothic fantasy novel, The Magicians and Mrs. Quent.
  • Upcoming interview: Catherynne M. Valente will be dropping by Joseph Mallozzi’s blog later this week to field questions about her book The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden. Stop by and leave your questions!
• There are some books so good that you pray Hollywood doesn’t mangle them into movies. [via Marooned]
• Baen Books has negotiated the rights to the entire Technic Civilization series by Poul Anderson. Texas Best Grok has the Tables of Contents.
• S. Andrew Swann discovers a cool sf triptych in Scalzi’s Old Man’s War, Heinlein’s Starship Troopers and Joe Haldeman’s Forever War.
• Steampunk in the Hamptons.
• Old School vs. New School Science Fiction: “…there is a difference between the old sci-fi and the new sci-fi. And one should not exclude new sci-fi from their diet as I once did. Don’t be too proud! New sci-fi has a lot to offer.”
• One for the FanFic hatahs: How Fan Fiction Can Teach Us a New Way to Read Moby-Dick (Part One).
• 111 knitters and crocheters made an afghan for Terry Pratchett, using images from his books, and gave it to him last week at a book festival in Edinburgh. [Thanks, Susan!]
• Real science: A “Frankenrobot” with a biological brain.
• Cool gadget from our nuclear future: The Terminator Skull DVD Player. Sweeeeet… [via SciFi Scanner]
• Lists:
  • @Great White Snark: The Top Five Girliest Vampire Movies
  • @Topless Robot: The Six Best (and Five Worst) Failed TV Pilots.
  • @Film.com: The Five Most Rabid Fanbases.
  • @Bam! Kapow!: Top Ten Skimpiest Superheroine Costumes.

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