SF Tidbits for 8/6/08
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at
12:05 am
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @io9: Ekaterina Sedia (Alchemy of Stone).
- Also @io9: A profile of William Barton (When Heaven Fell), the great unsung space opera writer.
- @Adventures in SciFi Publishing.: Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman.
- @Cult Pop: John Scalzi (Zoe’s War).
- @Wyrdsmiths: Kat Richardson, author of the parnormal detective novel Underground.
- @Death + Taxes: Jonathan Lethem. [via Enter the Octopus]
- @Barnes & Noble: Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl).
- Free Fiction:
- @FeedBooks:
- “Citadel” by Algis Budrys.
- “A Choice of Miracles” by James A. Cox.
- “The Machine That Saved The World” by Murray Leinster.
- “The Success Machine” by Henry Slesar.
- @Futurismic: “Dry Frugal with Death Rays” by Alex Wilson
- @Rimworlds: Chapter 6 of Steve Davidson’s Pulp Comic Story has been posted.
- @F&SF: “Tales from the Net: Coming of Age Day” by Rand B. Lee.
- @PodCastle: “Galatea” by Vylar Kaftan, read by Rachel Swirsky, first featured in Heliotrope.
- @FeedBooks:
- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction has posted the the contents of the September 2008 issue.
- Holly Lisle has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.
- Jo Walton looks at The Dystopic Earths of Heinlein’s Juveniles.
- “Stephen King thinks he has found a new means to ‘deliver’ his work to the world“.
- Tor.com continues their Hugo nominee book cover reviews with Halting State by Charles Stross.
- I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein gets a cover redesign.
- Liz Batty makes her 2008 Hugo Awards Predictions.
- Tor.com has posted videos of artist Jon Foster doing his thing.
- There’s a “We Love Doctor Who” playlist going on at YouTube. [via Fantasy Magazine]
- @SciFi Scanner: Batman Is Everything and Other Lessons Learned From the Summer of the Superhero.
- The Mashup-of-the-day, The Dark Black Knight, mixes The Dark Knight with the Black Knight scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. [via OpticalPoptitude]
- Lists:
- Mike Brotherton lists Online Astronomy Resources for Writers.
- 15 Blade Runner-like Buildings. [via Boing Boing Gadgets]
- io9 lists The Best And Worst Fake American Accents From Scifi’s Army Of Brits.
- Jay Tomio lists his 10 Favorite Pre-Hip(ster) Fantasy Movies. Big Trouble in Little China…right on.
- Finally: File this under “If I could embed it, I would”…Hulu has gone HD and has the full video from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Suh-weet!
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Correction: the Hugo predictions article at Torque Control is by co-blogger Liz Batty, not Niall Harrison.
Corrected. Thanks, Abigail!