SF Tidbits for 8/4/08

• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Brian James, author of Zombie Blondes.
• Speaking of whom, John Joseph Adams announced a new anthology, Federations, “exploring the idea of vast intergalactic societies, and the challenges facing those living in or trying to manage such societies”.
• Free Fiction:
  • The latest Apex Digest features fiction by (and interviews with) Maurice Broaddus and Wrath James White, and more. (Including Adrienne Jones’s top 5 inappropriate childhood crushes from the world of science fiction).
  • “The Machine That Saved The World” by Murray Leinster (1957).
  • @Munsey’s: Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy. [via QuasarDragon]
• Free audio fiction: The Moon Pool by A.E. Merritt. [via Maria Lectrix]
• Ekaterina Sedia will be guest-blogging at Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days August 4th through 8th.
• Spontaneous Derivation sez: Science Fiction is Not Dead and Will Never Be. [via Enter the Octopus]
• Reassembler on Genre bending: “…when a movie sets itself up in one genre and then intentionally, intelligently refuses to obey the conventions you expect – that can be really daring and interesting and fun. And gross. And shocking. And sad. And sly and funny. And unsettling.”
• Gameplayer interviews Rich Briggs, producer of the game Dead Space, a “A survival horror title set in a huge, monster-infested spaceship”.
• Courant.com profiles Carrie Fisher. [via Jeff Patterson]
• Are you ready to take the Zombie Survival Quiz? 52-questions? I’ll be dead and buried before I’d finish…or will I? Muuuwahahahahaha!
• Geeks of Doom share the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV Guide Covers. Is it just me who is completely uninterested in seeing this latest Star Wars film?

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