SF Tidbits for 10/17/08

• 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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