SF Tidbits for 9/29/08

• Free Fiction: Gwyneth Jones has posted a PDF version of her book, Bold As Love. [via Futurismic]
• Jay Lake shows off the cover for Alembical, an anthology of four novellas by Lake, Bruce Taylor, Jim van Pelt, and Ray Vukcevich.
• Jason W. Ellis at Dynamic Subspace considers David Foster Wallace, Philip K. Dick, and Transgressive Parody: “Is PKD like Wallace in respect to the concept of ‘transgressive parody’…? How does PKD move beyond parody?”
• James Wallace Harris looks at Future History and Science Fiction in which he looks at some of the technologies s”promised” by science fiction.
• Steven Harper Piziks on ePublishing: “Electronic publishing is the future! Embrace e-publishing! Paper is dead! You publishers are idiots, ignoring this new market! Please.”
• Cat Rambo on writing groups: “Bearing in mind that everything I say may be wrong for you, writing groups can be pretty useful — if it’s a good group.”
• Dear Abby on the joys of reading: “…while history, science fiction, mysteries and romance provide a wealth of diversion, reading provides far more than just an escape.”
• Full Contact Christianity looks at Theological Science Fiction and the Fall of Satan: “Theologians love to speculate. The problem arises when they begin to think of their speculations as fact — and especially when they begin to convince laymen that their speculations are fact.” [via Planet-x]
• From a SciFi Standpoint lists The Top 5 imaginary literary works from science fiction.

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