SF Tidbits for 10/18/08

• John Picacio shares the awesome triptych he did for Jeffrey Ford’s Well Built City trilogy. I saw the original shadowbox piece and it was endlessly fascinating.
• Interviews and Profiles:
  • @SciFi Wire: Jonathan Carroll (The Ghost in Love).
  • @Neth Space: Matthew Stover (Caine Black Knife).
  • @TV Guide: J.J. Abrams. “Can Star Trek Make Optimism Cool Again?”
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Project Gutenberg: “The Gallery” by Rog Phillips (1959).
  • AntipodeanSF has its latest issue featuring short SF stories by many authors.
  • Behind the Wainscot has a new issue up featuring fiction by Becca De La Rosa, Willow Fagan, Kristine Ong Muslim, and Laura Ellen Scott.
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @PodCastle: “Dead Languages” by Merrie Haskell, read by M. K. Hobson.
    • @The Classic Tales Podcast: Part Two of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, read by B. J.
    • @Pseudopod: “Periods” by Florence Ann Marlowe, read by Damaris Mannering.
    • @SFFaudio: “A Transmutation Of Muddles” By Horace Brown Fyfe, read by Roy Trumbull. [from The Story Spieler]
    • @Escape Pod: “Navy Brat” by Kay Kenyon, read by Dani Cutler.
    • James Melzer begins serializing his book audiobook, The Zombie Chronicles: Escape. [via Podiobooker]
• NY Times Book Review: Dave Itzkoff reviews Neal Stephenson’s Anathem: “It is an intricate Socratic puzzle, yet — though you may wish to banish me or pour hemlock down my throat for saying this — I’m not entirely sure it’s a novel.” [via Locus Online]
• Andrew Wheeler talks about authors getting skipped — having their books passed over by bookstores.
• The Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel, welcomes Caitlín R. Kiernan (A is for Alien) and Benjamin Parzybok (Couch) on Wednesday November 19th , 7pm at KGB Bar in New York City.
• Science fiction’s treatment of antimatter, considered by particle physicists: “Like everyone in his profession, John W. Campbell, Jr., editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine, kept a watchful eye on new developments in nuclear physics, astronomy, and other sciences. Any scientific news might provide an idea for a science fiction story.” [via Boing Boing]
• Nova offers up a brief history of parallel worlds: “Stick your finger in your ear… Did you do it? If the so-called Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct, there’s at least one universe in which you did, one in which you didn’t, and universes for everything in between.”
• Beware Lego Frankenstein! [via Super Punch]
• Björn Hurri completes the Steampunk Princess Leia. Nice.
• Lists:
  • @Entertainment Weekly: Capt. Kirk’s 20 Best and Worst Moments
  • @Little Fivers: » Sci-Fi Rumors That Might Panic the World (#7: “We are the Borg. We have invested heavily in Lehman Brothers and wish to check our portfolio.”)
  • @Topless Robot: The 10 Greatest Superheroes to Get Drunk With.
  • @Boston.com: Top 50 scariest horror movies of all time. [via Bill Crider]
  • @Bookgasm: 10 Completely Lame Superheroes. More hate for Bouncing Boy.

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