SF Tidbits for 9/30/08

• @SciFi Wire, Star Trek:TOS scribe D.C. Fontana picks her favorite Star Trek episodes, including ones written by Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison, and David Gerrold.
• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @Bibliophile Stalker: Mur Lafferty (Playing for Keeps).
  • Meanwhile, Mur Lafferty interviews Connie Willis (part 1).
  • @Whatever: Kenneth Hite (Tour de Lovecraft).
  • @Polu Texni: Michael A. Burstein (I Remember the Future).
  • @Genreville: Tobias S. Buckell (Sly Mongoose).
  • @Enter the Octopus: Mike Allen, editor of Clockwork Phoenix.
• Charlie Stross says: “We are living in interesting times; in fact, they’re so interesting that it is not currently possible to write near-future SF.”
• “Censorship is a terrible thing. So thank goodness it never works, says Philip Pullman.” [via Bookninja]
• H.P. Lovecraft Had a Sense of Humor.
• Samuel L. Jackson did voice work for the Afro Samurai video game, which is based on the animated series that he produces and also voices.
• Shaun Farrell looks at The First Wave of Podcast Novelists.
• In October, the Beyond Reality discussion group will be talking about Singer of Souls by Adam Stemple and Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell and will be joined by the authors.
• Paolo Bacigalupi (Pump Six and Other Stories) asks: Should Fiction Writers Write About Politics? One reader says, “Do you think authors blogging about their views on the election can undercut their fiction? It is very difficult to experience the fiction of Orson Scott Card or John Scalzi the same way after reading their political posts.”
• Literacy outreach: Stormtroopers and Cybermen to teach reading.
• Bored? Make a stormtrooper helmet out of paper. OK, maybe you’re not that bored.
• io9 lists The 12 Coolest Deaths In Science Fiction History.

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