SF Tidbits for 10/2/08

• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @Sci Fi Wire: Alan Dean Foster (Quofum).
  • It’s apparently a Connie Willis Interviewing marathon!
    • Mur Lafferty (part 2 of a video interview).
    • ActuSf.
    • The Rocky Mountain News, who also posts her story “New Hat“. [via File 770]
  • Future interviews: In October, Ghost in the Machine Podcast welcomes authors James Maxey and Adam Roberts.
• Blake Charlton, in an attempt to get Stanford to give him a grant to write medical science fiction, needs to convince people that medical fiction is a worthwhile endeavor for social change.
• Genreville rediscovers Terry Pratchett and decrees that the next Big Thing is “Slapstickstream”.
• Biology in Science Fiction looks at Uplifting and Ethics: “Futurist and bioethicist George Dvorsky …argues that not only should we be allowed to uplift nonhuman animals, but also that we have a moral obligation to do so.”
• E.E. Knight unveils his Vampire Earth book trailer
• David Langford has posted Ansible #255 for October 2008.
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Pyr: “Catherine Drewe” by Paul Cornell (from Fast Forward 2).
  • @Tor.com: “Catch ‘Em in the Act” By Terry Bisson.
  • Lilith Saintcrow is serializing her novel Selene. Here’s Part 19.
  • @Futurismic: “The Right People” by Adam Rakunas.
  • @Manybooks: “Children of Tomorrow” by Arthur Leo Zagat (1939).
  • Lone Star Stories has its 29th issue up with fiction by Hal Duncan, Jaime Lee Moyer, Ann Leckie and Rachel Swirsky.
  • Reflection’s Edge has its 40th issue up with fiction by Ed Robertson, Thane Thompson, Mercedes M. Yardley, Sheila Crosby, and Brooke Bolander.
  • Farrago’s Wainscot has its 8th issue out with fiction by Paul Abbamondi, Daniel Braum, Becca De La Rosa, Rob Hunter, Marc Lowe, Cat Rambo, and Mark Teppo.
  • Issue #25 of Clarkesworld Magazine features fiction by Jim C. Hines (whose story is also provided via podcast) and John A. McDermott; Non-fiction by Gord Sellar and Jeff VanderMeer;
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @Transmissions From Beyond: “Crystal Nights” by Greg Egan, read by Dave Jones.
    • @Fantasy Magazine: “The Voices of the Snakes” by Karina Sumner-Smith, read by Rachel Swirsky.
    • @StarShipSofa: “Senor Voltro” by Lucius Shepard and “Man Of The Theatre” By Norman Spinrad.
• Zombie in my Pocket is a free, PDF print-and-play solitaire game. [via MonkeyFilter]

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