SF Tidbits for 9/8/08

• Golden Age Batman, Superman, Flash papercraft! Awesome. [via Super Punch]
• The Agony Column interviews Kathleen Ann Goonan (In War Times).
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Apex: “The Limb Knitter” by Steven Francis Murphy.
  • @Munseys: “A World Called Crimson” by Darius John Granger (1956).
  • @Manybooks: The Day of the Nefilim by David L. Major (2002).
  • Free Speculative Fiction Online has added a ton of new additions this week.
  • Audio fiction @Beam Me Up: The Conclusion of “Bodies in the Water” by Jack Mangan and “Gentle Art of Salesmanship” by Shaun Saunders, both read by Paul Cole.
• Ted Kosmatka reports that Gardner Dozois, editor of the annual Year’s Best Science Fiction series, will be reviewing short fiction for Locus Magazine, replacing Nick Gevers (as per John Joseph Adams’s comment).
• Ray Bradbury and the State of the Public Library.
• Jonathan Strahan has posted a revised table of contents for Eclipse 2.
• Former Dark Horse publisher Victoria Blake has started a new publishing house called Underland Press which specializes in dark fantasy/Sci Fi/New Weird fiction.
• The Sci Fi Catholic sez: Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from Grimm’s Fairy Tales: “All elderly women practice magic. Some are evil witches, and some are good fairies; they’re impossible to tell apart, but if you don’t guess right, you’re screwed.”
• Night Shade books has a facebook page.
• One for the writers: Damage that an author can do to his or her career by choosing the vanity press route. [via swivet]
• International Society of Supervillains list The 11 Lamest Supervillains in History, Ever. (See also: Movie Superheroes Who Are Also Jerks.) Neatorama
• Obvious Math, Part I: Star Wars + Pink Floyd = Dark Side of the Moon.
• Obvious Math, Part II: Tricia Helfer + Katee Sackhoff + Harley Davidson = SciFi Biker Pr0n. [Not that I subscribe to Tricia Helfer's blog feed or anything...]

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