SF Tidbits for 8/20/08

By John DeNardo | Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 12:04 am

Interviews and Profiles:
- @Publishers Weekly: Liz Williams (The Shadow Pavilion).
- @SF Scope: Mike Allen, editor of Clockwork Phoenix.
- @Pretty/Scary: Ann VanderMeer.
- @SciFi Wire: John Marks (Fangland).
- @The Nebula Awards: Matthew Hughes.
- @Galaxiki: David Prowse (Darth Vader) [from last April].
- @Wired: Neal Stephenson (Anathem). [via Yatterings]
- @Fantasybookspot: Steven Brust (Vlad Taltos series).
- @The Daily Cross Hatch: Interview: Cory Doctorow (Part 1).
- @Fantasy Book Critic: Charlie Huston (the Joe Pitt Casebooks).
Free Audio fiction @ PodCastle: “Hallah Iron-Thighs and the Change of Life” by K. D. Wentworth. [via SFFaudio and QuasarDragon]
Check out this gallery of 1950s Space Art. [via Core Dump]
More retro art fun: A cool cover gallery.
Scifi’s Greatest Space Builders and How We’ll Copy Them.
Bloggers weigh in on Urban Fantasy and the Next Big Subgenre.
Lists:
- @Automopedia: 15 Classic Science Fiction Cars.
- @Omnivoracious: Top 5 Reasons to Grow Up On the Planet Chilo of Tobias Buckell’s Sly Mongoose.
- Also @Omnivoracious: Top Five Things You Can Do to Plant Your Own Seeds of Change.
- @Solar Flare: 5 funniest episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Humor @ McSweeney’s: Selections From H.P. Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s Sampler Copywriter. [Thanks, Jeff P.!]
If there was a Lego 99 and a Lego Jeanie to go with this Lego Batgirl, I’d be in Lego heaven.

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