SF Tidbits for 8/8/08
By John DeNardo |
Friday, August 8th, 2008 at
12:04 am
- Interviews and Profiles:
- @Enter the Octopus: Victor Gischler (Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse).
- @SciFi Wire: Nancy Kress (Dogs).
- @Chicago Tribune: Cory Doctorow (Little Brother).
- @io9: Charles Stross (Saturn’s Children).
- @Hub #61: William Gibson (Part 2).
- @Tor: Artist James Paick
- Chaosicon Blog profiles Richard Matheson. [via Enter the Octopus]
- Free Fiction:
- @Tor.com: “The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away” by Cory Doctorow
- @Hub #61: “To Someone Who Needs Prayer” by Barbara A. Barnett
- @Gutenberg [via QuasarDragon]:
- “Pandemic” by Jesse F. Bone.
- “Next Door, Next World” by Robert Donald Locke.
- Crucial Pop has an appreciation for Poul Anderson. [via The World in the Satin Bag]
- Jo Walton keeps pumpin’ out the cool posts with a look at C.J. Cherryh’s Atevi books.
- Tor continues their Hugo nominee book cover review with Robert J. Sawyer’s Rollback.
- Orbit has announced new titles from Joe Abercrombie, Jesse Bullington, Gail Carriger, and N.K. Jemisin.
- Voyages Extraordinaires offers A History of Steampunk: Part I – From Scientific Romances to Silent Films. [via Enter the Octopus]
- Awardus Interruptus: The Chesley Award winners are NOT being announced at WorldCon as balloting has yet to take place.
- “The Hugos don’t get a lot of publicity, but they are a fine showcase for speculative fiction. And guess what, the British are strong contenders.”
- Real Science: Photos of the total solar eclipse of 2008. [via Core Dump]
- Lists:
- @SciFi Wire: Top 10 Brilliant But Canceled TV Shows.
- @MSNBC: Top 5 best aliens in video games.
- @Topless Robot: The 8 Worst Things in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
- @Geeks of Doom: 11 Reasons Why I Didn’t Completely Hate the Star Wars Prequels.
- Apparently irked at my snark, SF Diplomat lists 10 Reasons why Krull is a better film than Lord of the Rings. Can’t we just all get along?
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