SF Tidbits for 8/24/08
By John DeNardo |
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 at
12:04 am
- Two more Ray Bradbury tidbits in honor of his 88th birthday this week:
- Cool Bradbury find of the week: Sindhu unearths 60 Greatest Science Fiction Shows Selected By Ray Bradbury, a record album (record album!) where Bradbury chooses from a slew of old time radio shows.
- File 770 reports on Ray Bradbury’s bookstore birthday celebration.
- Free Fiction:
- Excerpt at FantasyBookSpot: After the Downfall by Harry Turtledove.
- @Author website: “Grieve for a Man” by Tom Purdom.
- @FeedBooks:
- “The Jiminy Device” by Lisa Mantchev.
- “Cycle Thieves” by Mark Ward.
- Audio fiction:
- @PodCastle: “What Dragons Prefer” by Dayle A. Dermatis, read by Loupe Savich.
- @ClonePod:
- “Incarnation Day” by Walter Jon Williams, read by Dani Cutler.
- “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” by Neil Gaiman, read by Bruce McDonald.
- “Alien Hunt” by James Hartley, read by Bruce McDonald.
- “The Poisoned Chalice” by Brian Stableford, read by Bruce McDonald.
- “Goblin Hunter” by Jim C. Hines, read by Bruce McDonald.
- Bill Crider has the skinny on a zombie musical in Houston.
- New art gallery at Tor.com: Steampunkster Eric Freitas.
- S.M. Duke is looking for Literary SF titles.
- Anatomy of an Internet discussion:
- Ian Sales says Don’t Look Back in Awe when discussing the undeserving admiration given to many science fiction novels and short stories of earlier decades.
- Futurismic and io9 respond to Sales.
- Lou Anders responds to Futurismic.
- Wyrdsmiths shares a Steampunk for Dummies poster.
- Cool toy: a radio-controlled version of the Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701.
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- SF Tidbits for 9/12/06
- SF Tidbits for 12/23/07
- SF Tidbits for 7/11/08
- SF Tidbits for 1/28/06
- SF Tidbits for 2/16/06
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