SF Tidbits for 10/17/08
By John DeNardo |
Friday, October 17th, 2008 at
12:08 am
- Editor Jonathan Strahan shows off the super-awesome Donato Giancola cover art for Eclipse Two.
- RIP: Sad news…British author Barrington John Bayley has passed away.
- Interviews and Profiles:
- @Tor.com: Artists Jane and Howard Frank.
- @Omnivoracious: Part 3 of a 3-part interview with Jeffrey Ford (Well-Built City Trilogy).
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- Orbit shares chapter 1 of The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks.
- @Manybooks: “Zehru of Xollar” by Hal K. Wells (1932).
- @Hairy Green Eyeball: “Horror-Beasts Dine Tonight” by Robert J. Cassiday.
- Audio Fiction:
- “In the Forests of the Night” by Jay Lake (from METAtropolis).
- @StarShipSofa: “Little Girl Down The Away” by Lawrence Santoro.
- @Dunesteef: “Crashing Stolen Cars” by Jonathan J. Schlosser.
- @LibriVox:
- Out of Time’s Abyss Part 1 by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
- “Police Operations” by H. Beam Piper.
- David Louis Edelman explains The Purpose and Utility of Author Blogging.
- Charlie Huston (Already Dead, No Dominion, Half the Blood of Brooklyn, and Every Last Drop ) shares one reader’s comrehensive (but spoilery) Joe Pitt Casebooks Primer.
- John Scalzi looks at B-movies.
- There’s a discussion on LibraryThing about the Best Young Adult SF.
- Neatorama has The Stories Behind 3 Horror Classics.
- John Anealio has another Sci Fi Songs, “Angels and Vampires“, pseudo-inspired Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice.
- Things are always better after enjoying zombie papercraft! [via Boing^2]
- io9 asks: Is JJ Abrams The New Joss Whedon? What a great question. I wondered that same thing…when I said it over at Sci Fi Scanner last month. (6)
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