
- Interviews & Profiles:
- Blake Charlton, in an attempt to get Stanford to give him a grant to write medical science fiction, needs to convince people that medical fiction is a worthwhile endeavor for social change.
- Genreville rediscovers Terry Pratchett and decrees that the next Big Thing is "Slapstickstream".
- Biology in Science Fiction looks at Uplifting and Ethics: "Futurist and bioethicist George Dvorsky ...argues that not only should we be allowed to uplift nonhuman animals, but also that we have a moral obligation to do so."
- E.E. Knight unveils his Vampire Earth book trailer
- David Langford has posted Ansible #255 for October 2008.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Pyr: "Catherine Drewe" by Paul Cornell (from Fast Forward 2).
- @Tor.com: "Catch 'Em in the Act" By Terry Bisson.
- Lilith Saintcrow is serializing her novel Selene. Here's Part 19.
- @Futurismic: "The Right People" by Adam Rakunas.
- @Manybooks: "Children of Tomorrow" by Arthur Leo Zagat (1939).
- Lone Star Stories has its 29th issue up with fiction by Hal Duncan, Jaime Lee Moyer, Ann Leckie and Rachel Swirsky.
- Reflection's Edge has its 40th issue up with fiction by Ed Robertson, Thane Thompson, Mercedes M. Yardley, Sheila Crosby, and Brooke Bolander.
- Farrago's Wainscot has its 8th issue out with fiction by Paul Abbamondi, Daniel Braum, Becca De La Rosa, Rob Hunter, Marc Lowe, Cat Rambo, and Mark Teppo.
- Issue #25 of Clarkesworld Magazine features fiction by Jim C. Hines (whose story is also provided via podcast) and John A. McDermott; Non-fiction by Gord Sellar and Jeff VanderMeer;
- Audio Fiction:
- Zombie in my Pocket is a free, PDF print-and-play solitaire game. [via MonkeyFilter]
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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday October 02, 2008 at 12:04 AM
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