SF Tidbits for 9/11/08

• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • Free zombie stories (Woot!) from The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams [via Tor, which offers multi-format links]:
    • “Some Zombie Contingency Plans” by Kelly Link
    • “Death and Suffrage” by Dale Bailey
    • “Dead Like Me” by Adam-Troy Castro
    • “Stockholm Syndrome” by David Tallerman
  • Lilith Saintcrow is serializing her novel Selene. Here’s Part 10.
  • @Coyote Wild Magazine: “The Haunting of Jin’s Ear” by Jim C. Hines [via Free SF Reader].
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @StarShipSofa: “East” by M. John Harrison, read by Simon Chapman.
    • Futurismic has three Tom Doyle stories, read by the author.
    • @Maria Lectrix: Part two of “Code Three” by Rick Raphael, read by Maureen O’Brien.
    • Also @Maria Lectrix: Part one and part two of “Hail to the Chief” by Randall Garrett, read by Maureen O’Brien.
  • Excerpts:
    • Minister Faust, who is blogging over at Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days this week, offers up an exceprt from his book The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad.
    • @BookSpotCentral: Chapter 1 of Nercopath by Eric Brown.
• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @Tor: Artists Julie Bell, Boris Vallejo, Anthony & David Palumbo.
  • @Adventures in SciFi Publishing: Sean Williams (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed).
  • @Concept Sci-fi: Philip Palmer (Debatable Space).
  • @Genreville: Tor’s Art Dicrector Irene Gallo.
  • @SciFi Wire: Kit Reed (The Night Children).
• Eos has launched their our own internet radio show called The Beyond on the Authors on Air network. It will feature author interviews and talks with fans
• Eric Flint and Cory Doctorow are featured on the CBC Radio podcast Who Owns Ideas? [via Fred K.]
• Lou Anders compares sf literature & film: “I think that traditionally a majority of filmic sci-fi is concerned with maintaining the status quo and getting the genies back in the bottles…By contrast, literary science fiction is often set after such an event has already happened, sometimes a good deal after, and throws us in medias res into a world in which part of the fun of the narrative is working out how the world in the tale differs from the world we know and part of the theme lies in examining how these changes act as a lens to illuminate some aspect of humanity that we take for granted.”
• John Scalzi on Why We Love Our Post-Apocalyptic Flicks.
• John C. Wright informs us that a story set in his Golden Age milieu will appear in New Space Opera II edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan.
• @AbeBooks: Win a signed copy of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon.
• Edward M. Lerner has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog. [via SFScope]
• Orbit has acquired Robert Bennett’s Mr. Shivers, a dark fantasy set in the Great Depression American West in the vein of Stephen King’s The Gunslinger.
• The 2008 issue of Triangulation features fiction from Reesa Brown, Amy Treadwell, Elizabeth Barrette, Katy Darby, Rachel Swirsky, Paul Stefko, Gail Sosinsky Wickman, Shanna Germain, Matthew Johnson, Jacob Edwards, Gerri Leen, David Seigler, Ian Creasey, Marc Vun Kannon, Matt Betts, Stephen V. Ramey, Lavie Tidhar, Shweta Narayan, and Eugie Foster.
• Scott D Parker points us to some cool images of noir Marvel comic characters.
• Fight like a dinosaur (literally) with this online game: Jurassic Fight Club: Turf Wars! (A companion site to The History Channel’s Jurassic Fight Club special.)
• Large Hadron Collider-inspired lists:
  • @MSNBC: Novels that Explore the Fictional Frontiers of Particle Physics. (Also features a picture of physicist/author John Cramer, who I met at ApolloCon last year. Smart and funny fellow, he is.) [via Tor]
  • @io9: 10 SciFi Stories Where Physics Experiments Destroy the World.
• Finally: It’s Wall-E Lego!

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