SF Tidbits for 9/20/08
By John DeNardo |
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 at
12:11 am
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @SciFi Wire: Edward Lerner (Juggler of Worlds, a Known Space book).
- @Omnivoracious: Judith Tarr (Bring Down the Sun).
- @The Agony Column: Jeremy Lassen (Night Shade Books).
- @io9: artist Aaron Jasinski.
- @Suvudu: GoodRead’s interview with Neil Gaiman (The Graveyard Book).
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- Afterlife by Douglas Clegg. [via Suvudu]
- Lilith Saintcrow is serializing her novel Selene. Here’s Part 14.
- @SpaceWesterns: Part 1 of “The Mound” by H. P. Lovecraft and & Zealia Bishop’s.
- Audio Fiction:
- @PodCastle: “Anywhere There’s a Game” by Greg Van Eekhout, read by Benjamin Manoochehri
- @Pseudopod: “The Teacher” by Paul G. Tremblay, read by Mur Lafferty.
- @LibriVox: She and Allan by H. Rider Haggard, read by Lars Rolander
- StarShipSofa has its 42nd episode up with readings of “Earthmen Bearing Gifts” By Fredric Brown and “The Ant King” by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
- The next meeting of the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series (Wednesday October 15th) is a celebration of Weird Tales magazine and features Jeffrey Ford, Ann VanderMeer, Stephen H. Segal, Karen Heuler and Micaela Morrissette.
- The upcoming National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by First Lady Laura Bush, is being held on September 27th 2008 and features over 70 award-winning authors including Neil Gaiman.
- Jason Sanford is offering bloggers a chance to win a free subscription to Interzone.
- John Picacio shares his preliminary artwork for Muse of Fire by Dan Simmons, an upcoming publication from Subterranean Press.
- Do You Really Want Science Fiction Books To Be More Literary?
- @Blood & Rhetoric: Book cover trends in fantasy and science fiction.
- Nick Cave talks about scoring the supervolcano post-apocalypse for the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. [via SciFi Scanner]
- Deadbooks is an online serialization of Hasso Wuerslin’s SF-Horror series, The DeadBooks.
- GeekAlerts shares a cool looking Steampunk Headset.
- Lists:
- @io9: The 20 Best Worst Science Fiction Movies Of All Time.
- @Discover Magazine: The 5 Greatest Space Operas.
Related posts:
- Neil Gaiman Interviews
- SF Tidbits for 8/24/08
- SF Tidbits for 11/20/07
- SF Tidbits for 1/25/07
- SF Tidbits for 2/8/07
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Spelling: She and Allan (not Allen). Excellent book by the way, thanks for posting the link to the audio.