SF Tidbits for 10/22/08

• Interviews & Profiles:
  • The Agony Column podcast-interviews Joe R. Lansdale (Leather Maiden).
  • @io9: Richard K. Morgan and Danny Boyle.
  • @The World in the Satin Bag: Ginn Hale
  • @The Nebula Awards: Elizabeth Wein.
  • @Omnivoracious: Geoff Ryman’s Cambodian Tales (Part 2).
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]: PodCastle offers “Grand Guignol” by Andy Duncan, read by Frank Key.
• The New York Times (!) looks at Steampunk fashion.
• Boing Boing tells us about an awesome-sounding website that photoshops science fiction and fantasy books covers to be more accurate. Sadly, the site has been Boing-Boinged.
• Angry Robot Books, the new contemporary genre imprint from HarperCollins, has a blog.
• Real Science: “Only five percent of the universe is now thought to consist of normal matter, with 23 percent of it being dark matter and the remaining 72 percent dark energy.” [via TexasBestGrok] I, for one, welcome our Dark Energy Overlords.
• Fantasy Magazine lists 10 Fantasy Movies That Ruined It For The Rest Of Us. Just when i had purged Willow from my memory…

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