SF Tidbits for 10/21/08
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 at
12:10 am
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @Genreville: Kelly Link (Pretty Monsters).
- @The Galaxy Express: Rose Fox of Genreville.
- If You’re Just Joining Us has an audio-interview with Catherynne M. Valente (Palimpsest).
- @Omnivoracious: Geoff Ryman (The King’s Last Song) talks about his Cambodian experiences
- @AMC: William B. Davis (X-Files‘s Smoking Man).
- @Adventures in SciFi Publishing podcast: E.E. Knight (the Vampire Earth series).
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Strange Horizons: “Just After Midnight” by Christie Skipper Ritchotte.
- @Fantasy Magazine: “A Spell For Twelve Brothers” by Erzebet Yellowboy.
- @Polu Texni: “The Slaying of Winter” (part 2) by Vera Nazarian.
- Jennifer Fallon offers an extract from her book The Chaos Crystal.
- @Project Gutenberg:
- “A Place in the Sun” by Stephen Marlowe (1956).
- “Summer Snow Storm” by Adam Chase (1956).
- “The Coming of the Ice” by Green Peyton (1926).
- Audio Fiction:
- @LibriVox: Trips to the Moon by Lucian of Samosata, translated by Thomas Francklin, read by Ralph Snelson.
- @Maria Lectrix: Part Four (the conclusion) of “Hail to the Chief” by Randall Garrett, read by Maureen O’Brien.
- Here’s a gallery of Clive Barker’s conceptual artwork for Midnight Meat Train, a film based on his short story. [via Boing Boing]
- Bob Eggleton shows off the artwork for upcoming Poul Anderson books.
- Rich Horton picks his stories of 2008. [via Ted Kosmatka]
- Michael Cassutt looks at Buzz Aldrin’s claim that science fiction is to blame for the public perceptions of space travel.
- I’m loving SciFi weekly’s new forays into bloggish content — that is, offering up pieces with opinion as well as news. Take, for example, A Heroes Intervention which offers advice to the wayward writers of Heroes.
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John, thanks for linking to my interview with Rose Fox. I really appreciate it. Writers interested in creating languages for their stories will find it a great resource–Rose really knows her stuff.