SF Tidbits for 10/19/08
- Geek gadgets that sound dirty but aren't: Star Trek Nutcrackers.
- Jason Sanford asks: Did some independent bookstores deserve to die?
- At Torque Control, Niall Harrison talks about space opera book promotion.
- Ellen Datlow has posted photos from the last KGB reading featuring Ann VanderMeer, Stephen Segal, Micaela Morisette, Karen Heuler, and Jeffrey Ford.
- Mark Chitty is looking for examples of a fictional "super setting". Any suggestions?
- Aaron Miller looks at the challenges of sci-fi. "The best science fiction stories explore humanity and personal relationships with technology being the catalyst and/or guide of that questioning."
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Project Gutenberg: "Wanted-- 7 Fearless Engineers!" by Warner Van Lorne. (1939)
- Audio Fiction:
- @Clonepod: "In Memory of Maggie" by Liz Mierzejewski, read by Bruce McDonald.
- @LibriVox: The Collected Public Domain Works of H.P. Lovecraft, read by many readers.
- @Fantasy & Folktales: "The Pit & The Pendulum" by Edgar Allen Poe, read by Yxes Delacroix. [via Monster Rally]
- Artist Frank Wu shows off the cool artwork he's submitting to SF 'zine File 770.
- Here's a neat gallery of Sci-Fi Ray Guns.
- Lists:
- @Grasping for the Wind: 9 Awesome Heroines of Epic Fantasy.
- @International Society of Supervillains: 7 Scary Comics Supervillains.
- @Cracked.com: 6 Signs You're About to be Attacked by Zombies.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday October 19, 2008 at 12:08 AM
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