SF Tidbits for 10/19/08

By John DeNardo | Sunday, October 19th, 2008 at 12:08 am

Geek gadgets that sound dirty but aren’t: Star Trek Nutcrackers.
Jason Sanford asks: Did some independent bookstores deserve to die?
At Torque Control, Niall Harrison talks about space opera book promotion.
Ellen Datlow has posted photos from the last KGB reading featuring Ann VanderMeer, Stephen Segal, Micaela Morisette, Karen Heuler, and Jeffrey Ford.
Mark Chitty is looking for examples of a fictional “super setting”. Any suggestions?
Aaron Miller looks at the challenges of sci-fi. “The best science fiction stories explore humanity and personal relationships with technology being the catalyst and/or guide of that questioning.”
Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Project Gutenberg: “Wanted– 7 Fearless Engineers!” by Warner Van Lorne. (1939)
- Audio Fiction:
  - @Clonepod: “In Memory of Maggie” by Liz Mierzejewski, read by Bruce McDonald.
  - @LibriVox: The Collected Public Domain Works of H.P. Lovecraft, read by many readers.
  - @Fantasy & Folktales: “The Pit & The Pendulum” by Edgar Allen Poe, read by Yxes Delacroix. [via Monster Rally]
Artist Frank Wu shows off the cool artwork he’s submitting to SF ‘zine File 770.
Here’s a neat gallery of Sci-Fi Ray Guns.
Lists:
- @Grasping for the Wind: 9 Awesome Heroines of Epic Fantasy.
- @International Society of Supervillains: 7 Scary Comics Supervillains.
- @Cracked.com: 6 Signs You’re About to be Attacked by Zombies.

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