SF Tidbits for 8/21/08

• Interviews and Profiles:
  • @Crucial Pop: Tobias S. Buckell (Sly Mongoose).
  • @Adventures in SciFi Publishing: Gary Philips, Doselle Young, Lilith Saintcrow, and Eldon Thompson
  • @Dragon Page: Charles Stross (Saturn’s Children)
  • @Neth Space: John Scalzi (Zoe’s Tale).
  • @Geek Sugar: An audio interview with Ashley Eckstein (voice of Ahsoka in Clone Wars).
  • @Suvudu: A video interview with Sean Williams (Star Wars: The Forced Unleashed).
• Free Fiction:
  • Free serialized novel: Selene, a Saint City novel by Lilith Saintcrow. (Subscribe via RSS).
  • @Suvudu: chapter 1 of Armageddon’s Children by Terry Brooks.
  • Audio fiction by StarshipSofa: “Hellfire At The Twilight Club” by Kage Baker and “Billy And The Wizard: by Terry Bisson.
  • @ManyBooks.net: “Wreckers of the Star Patrol” by Malcolm Jameson (1942)
• “Dark City director Alex Proyas will write and direct an SF movie based on The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, a Robert A. Heinlein novella, according to The Hollywood Reporter.”
• Over at Tor.com, Jo Walton names The Weirdest SF Book in the World.
• Also at Tor: David Levine’s Launch Pad summary.
• Cover Pr0n: Melissa Gay’s cover art for Sara M. Harvey’s The Convent of the Pure.
• The September 17th meeting of the free Reading at KGB series welcomes Cassandra Clare and Lauren McLaughlin.
• The Rules of Quick and Dirty Worldbuilding.
• How Fan Fiction Can Teach Us a New Way to Read Moby-Dick (Part Two).
• At SciFi Scanner, Kevin Maher’s SciFi Dept. covers a subject near and dear to our misguided hearts: KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park.
• Gee, this cat kinda does look like Yoda.
• Real Science: How to Mine Martian Water.
• Lists:
  • Lisa Paitz Spindler lists 13 Things You Didn’t Know About Living in Space.
  • A video list: Top 20 Best Anime Openings. [via Easter Lemming Notebook]
  • From 2001: David Langford’s Top 20 of SF/F Books.
  • @SciFiWire (are lists a new direction for them?): Nine Best Star Wars Spoofs.
  • @The Daily Green: 10 Helpful Ways to Recycle Used Books. You mean, we’re not supposed to horde them?
• Finally, an answer to the question: What do you get when you cross John Scalzi, Wil Wheaton and a black velvet painting?

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