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- At Audible, guest-Editor Charlaine Harris lists a few of her favorite things while Orson Scott Card podcast-reviews Larry Niven's Protector.
- Interviews and Profiles:
- @Comic Book Resources: Harlan Ellison. [via Locus Online]
- @SciFi Wire: Victor Gischler (Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse) and Daryl Gregory (Pandemonium).
- @Whatever: Julie Czerneda (Riders of the Storm).
- @Wordchanging: Cory Doctorow (Little Brother).
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- "Denise Jones, Super Booker" by John Scalzi.
- @Manybooks: "Earthmen Bearing Gifts" by Frederic Brown (1960).
- @Feedbooks: "Veritas Nos Liberabit" by Kristin Janz (2008).
- Audio Fiction:
- @PodCastle: "Moon Viewing at Shijo Bridge" by Richard Parks, read by Steve Anderson.
- @Maria Lectrix: Part one of "Code Three" by Rick Raphael, read by Maureen O'Brien.
- @LibriVox: Erec and Enide by Chrétien de Troyes, translated by William Wistar Comfort, read by M. J. Boyle.
- Free excerpts:
- Brisingr by Christopher Paolini. [via Suvudu]
- Halting State by Charles Stross. [via Orbit]
- @Locus Online: Macropayments Cory Doctorow.
- SFFWorld examines the difference between science fiction and science fantasy.
- Lou Anders weighs in on media tie-ins.
- Jeff VanderMeer has taken the awesome cover or Orbit's Orcs omnibus and done something very, very wrong.
- How Many Fantasy Authors Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb? Brian Ruckley knows the answers.
- One for the writers: Scott Marlowe looks at sellable book lengths. Guess what? It depends on the genre.
- How to cook an alien. [via Look At This]
- @Boing Boing: Evolution of the AT-AT t-shirt
- Lists:
- @SciFi Wire: 10 movies in which New York gets the smackdown.
- @Hecklerspray: Top 10 Star Wars Moments. [via Look At This]
- @The List Universe: 10 Great Fantasy Book Series.
- Video Pop Quiz: Can you spot the reference to sf publisher Pyr in this week's episode of Stargate: Atlantis?
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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday September 05, 2008 at 12:06 AM
© 2008 SF Signal
The Audible podcast links don't go to anyplace useful. I'll just assume that Card liked Protector.
Posted by Walt on Friday September 05, 2008 at 5:13 PM
Where's SF Signal's official spellchecker/linkchecker when you need him?
[Looks for Fred]
Fixed. Thanks!
Posted by John on Friday September 05, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Deep in the middle of a work-related crisis. Dang all lawyers. Are they born without a sense of humor or is it surgically removed during law school?
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Friday September 05, 2008 at 8:19 PM