SF Tidbits for 8/22/08

• Free Fiction:
  • @Author’s site: Neptune Crossing by Jeffrey A. Carver.
  • @RimWorlds: Pup Comic Fairy Tale, Chapter 9.
  • @Strange Horizons: “Sex with Ghosts” by Sarah Kanning.
  • @Munseys [via QuasarDragon]:
    • The Defiant Agents by Andre Norton.
    • “The Sundering Flood” by William Morris.
  • @Fantasybookspot: After the Downfall (Chapter 1) by Harry Turtledove.
• Interviews and Profiles:
  • @Writers Voice: John Kessel on his collection The Baum Plan for Financial Independence.
  • @Fangs, Fur, & Fey: Kathryn Smith (Before I Wake)
  • @Publishers Weekly: Jo Walton.
  • @SciFiWire: Young-adult-fantasy author Marie Rutkoski (The Cabinet of Wonders).
• Gordon Van Gelder, editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, has some questions about publishing short fiction online. “…has short fiction been devalued by the fact that so many places offer it for free online nowadays”
• Censorship or common sense? A publisher is trying to discourage unwholesome behaviour in its children’s writers. [via Boing Boing and GalleyCat, see also MIND MELD: Is Young Adult SF/F Too Explicit?]
• Michael Chabon is fighting the good fight for science fiction. [via swivet]
• John Scalzi @ Tor.com: Playing With Your Emotions: The Literary Version: “I’ve often wondered if one entertainment medium is better at wrenching emotions out of people than others.”
• Jonathan Strahan announces Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier, the follow-up young adult anthology to The Starry Rift, based on the premise that we go to Mars in 2040. (Hmmm…sounds like a perfect fit for a Celestial Empire story.)
• Judging a book by the cover: Steven Brust’s Vlad Taltos series.
• At Strange Horizons, Iain Jackson looks at the commonality between real-world and comic book cities.
• Solar Flare sez: There’s No Such Thing as Science Fiction Fandom.
• H.P. Lovecraft Bits:
  • Weird Tales: The Strange Life of H.P. Lovecraft. [via Enter the Octopus]
  • Apparently short on headless bodies, the New York Post profiles H.P. Lovecraft’s apartment.
• The Art of Darkness finds beauty in the theme from Poltergeist.
• Plot the Star Wars galaxy with Wired‘s Star Wars Timeline.
• Cool/Geek gear: Evolution of the AT-AT T-Shirt
• Game Theory in The Dark Knight: A Critical Review of the Opening Scene…with Spoilers. [via Gerry Canavan]
• Real Scientist: Over at Big Think, Heidi Hammel, a Senior Research Scientist at Space Science Institute, has some interesting videos on

  dark energy, how a it’s not lack of technology that prevents us from developing moon colonies, and her belief that science and religion are not mutually exclusive. (See also: more videos with Heidi Hammel.

• Hard times in Gotham City: Meet Middle Class Batman.
• Lists:
  • Liz Gorinsky rounds up favorite SFnal acronyms.
  • @Feminist SF: Top Ten (Eleven) Obscure Works
  • @Film School Rejects: The 5 Coolest Cthulhu Collectibles on the Market.

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