SF Tidbits for 10/11/08

• Chris Roberson looks at Kim Newman’s The Diogenes Club stories.
• Interviews and Profiles:
  • Over at SFX, John Carpenter talks about The Thing“.
  • Judith Spelman has posted a pdf copy of an Iain Banks interview she did for Writer’s News Writing Magazine. [via Iain Banks website.]
  • io9 profiles artist John Picacio.
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @SpaceWesterns: “Better than Gold” by Robert Mancebo.
  • @Tomorrow Elephant: four stories by Finnish author Hannu Rajaniemi. [via Free SF Reader and Variety SF]
  • @Hub: “Life from Mars” by Penelope Friday.
  • Aphelion has a new issue up with fiction by Scott T. Barnes, Ben Whittaker, Jonathan Tidball, Richard Tornello, Eric J. Krause, V. Ulea, A. Kolotove, Roderick D. Turner, Wallace Dorian, Carolyn D. Whiteurst, Robert Moriyama, and Wayne Summers.
  • @Manybooks:
    • “Hard Guy” by H.B. Carleton (1942).
    • “Solander’s Radio Tomb” by Ellis Parker Butler (1956).
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @Pseudopod: “Radiodemonology” by John Medaille, read by Alasdair Stuart.
    • @A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou: “All the World’s Tears” by Brian Aldiss, read by Elisha Sessions.
    • @LibriVox: The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris, read by Cori Samuel.
    • @LibriVox: The Last Man by Mary Shelley, read by many authors.
• Popular Mechanics looks at the technology portrayed in the new thriller Body of Lies.
• The SciFi Channel’s SCI FI Wire has expanded its offering of news and features with a new category: Wire EXTRA, which will be the home for Wire’s “fun stuff” like top 10 lists, opinion columns, exclusive streaming video, blog posts from on set, and behind-the-scenes images.
• One for the writers: Suvudu offers cover letter advice.

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