SF Tidbits for 9/26/08

• DreamWorks has acquired the film rights to John Wyndham’s Chocky. “Steven Spielberg is said to be keen to make the adaptation his next directing project.” [via Locus Online]
• An I Am Legend prequel starring Will Smith is being planned. Topless Robot is not amused.
• At SciFi Scanner, John Scalzi talks about SciFi film music.
• Damien G. Walter Guardian piece, Science fiction doesn’t have to be gloomy, does it?, gets responses from Kathryn Cramer and Lou Anders.
• The Guardian interviews Peter F. Hamilton (The Void trilogy).
• io9 interviews Diane Duane [via SciFi Scanner]
• Free Excerpt: Sly Mongoose, Chapter Two by Tobias Buckell.
• Via Boing Boing: The Sorted Books project makes stories from book spine text.
• Tor shows the progression of Todd Lockwood’s artwork for Tom Lloyd’s Stormcaller.
• Pawel D. writes in to tell us that Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is being adapted as a stage play in Poland.
• Vote in this year’s SFX Awards!
• Just in case you were wondering…Nicole Richie Totally Looks Like A Sleestak. [OpticalPoptitude]

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