SF Tidbits for 9/2/08

• The latest issue of Clarkesworld Magazine (#24) features fiction from Cat Rambo and Eric M. Witchey; a non-fiction article by Alethea Kontis; an interview with Richard K. Morgan; an audio version of Cat Rambo’s story. The cool artwork for this magazine continues with “Into the Depths” by Patrick Reilly.
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Strange Horizons: “There Once Was a Fish” by Brandon Myers.
  • @Fantasy Magazine: “Original Gangster” by Jim Hines.
  • Lilith Saintcrow is serializing her novel Selene. Here’s Part 6.
  • @Hairy Green Eyeball: “The Metal Man” by Jack Williamson (1928) in JPEG scans.
  • @Futurismic: “The Plastic Elf of Extrusion Valley” by David McGillveray.
  • @FeedBooks:
    • A House-Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs (1895).
    • Pursuit of the House-Boat by John Kendrick Bangs (1897).
    • The Enchanted Type-Writer by John Kendrick Bangs (1899).
• Free music: John Anealio is back with another free SciFi song called “Merithyn’s Promise“, an acoustic guitar solo inspired by Elizabeth Haydon’s Requiem For The Sun. Nice.
• Interviews and Profiles:
  • The Agony Column has part 2 of an interview with Clive Barker.
  • @Davebrendon’s Fantasy & Sci-Fi Weblog: Jo Graham (Black Ships).
  • @Bibliophile Stalker: Cat Rambo.
• Alastair Reynolds calls a moratorium on using the term “sci-fi” as a pejorative.
• The Fix examines the perennial proclamation of The End of Science Fiction: “…there are five big arguments for a bleak view of the genre’s prospects that certainly merit consideration.”
• Edward Champion reviews Matter by Iain M. Banks: “In an Iain M. Banks novel, you will find sour antiheroes sweet-talking corpulent cannibal kings, erratic robot drones so caught up in lending a helping hand that they overlook the telltale traces of emotional breakdown within those they serve, and a febrile zeal for blowing things up which suggests that Banks isn’t so much an author of bawdy and exciting adventures as he is a giddy eight-year-old with an elaborate train set scattered across a football field.” If I had nickel for every time I heard that…
• Robert Lindsay offers a belated eulogy for Avram Davidson.
• Mystery Man on Film compares The Dark Knight script to the film. [via Cynical-C Blog]
• @Conceptual Trends: Neal Stephenson and the 10,000-Year Clock. [also via Cynical-C Blog]
• Mike Brotherton finds an Internet Public Library page that summarizes the summaries of every basic plot.
• SFFaudio begins podcasting.
• David Langford has posted the new Ansible for September 2008.
• Here’s a Flickr gallery of Stormtroopers in everyday situations. [via SciFi Scanner]
• Geekend shows us How to build a steampunk lightsaber.
• The cover art of the Star Trek: Alternate Realities DVD set features Good Spock/Evil Spock. Suh-weet.
• Lists:
  • Peter Hodges lists 6 Rules of Con Etiquette. “When panels open up for questions, ask your question and shut up.”
  • @That Fictitious Nonsense: Top 5 Fantasy/ Sci-fi Writers.
  • @Cracked: Hollywood’s 5 Saddest Attempts at Feminism. [via Whedonesque]
  • @EW: 21 Horrible Sci-Fi Futures.

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