SF Tidbits for 8/30/08

• Interviews and Profiles:
  • @Concept Sci-fi: Marianne De Pierres (Dark Space). [via Orbit]
  • @The Agony Column: Lou Anders discusses space opera.
  • @Emma Larkins: Jason Sanford
  • Podcast: Craig Shaw Gardner on Humor in Speculative Fiction, from Odyssey SF/F Writing Workshop.
  • @Locus Online: Interview excerpts from the latest issue, featuring Michael Chabon and Greer Gilman.
  • Iain Banks answers reader questions.
  • @OUPblog: Jeff Prucher, author of Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, shares his thoughts on his recent Hugo win.
  • @SciFi Wire: Michael Marshall Smith (The Servants).
  • @SciFi Wire: Joshua Jackson, star of J.J. Abrams’ upcoming show The Fringe.
  • @AccessAtlanta: George Takei. [via File 770]
  • @SciFiChick: Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry and Trevor Roth.
  • @The Bat Segundo Show: Brent Spiner
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • Lilith Saintcrow is serializing her novel Selene. Here’s Part 4.
  • @Cosmos: “Frame of Mind” by Christopher East.
  • @Manybooks.net: A Stable For Nightmares by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1896).
  • @FeedBooks:
    • “Solitude Ripples From The Past” by David Reagan.
    • “Mallory” by Leonard Richardson.
    • “Uxo, Bomb Dog” by Eliot Fintushel.
    • “The Towers Of St. Michael’s” by David Walton.
    • “A Life In Pictures” by Mark Ward.
    • “R.P.M.” by Chris Nakashima-Brown.
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @Escape Pod: “Robots Don’t Cry” by Mike Resnick, read by Stephen Eley.
    • @Pseudopod: “Pattern Masters” by Jeff Carlson, read by David Moore.
    • @Well Told Tales: Episode one of “I Killed Awesome Man” by Finn Colgan, performed by a full cast.
  • More free fiction @ Futurismic.
• Robert J. Sawyer shows off the cover of his imprint’s new anthology The Savage Humanists , which features fiction by Gregory Frost, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Jonathan Lethem, James Morrow, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, Tim Sullivan, and Connie Willis.
• Jo Walton’s love-hate relationship with fantasy.
• N.K. Jemisin asks: Why aren’t there any brown elves? [via Orbit]
• One for the writers: Kristine Kathryn Rusch on detail.
• Solar Flare and S.M. Duke weigh in on the future of Star Wars.
• Wired lists 10 Geeky Movies to Raise Your Kids On.

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