SF Tidbits for 10/25/08

• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @SciFi Wire: Chris Roberson (Iron Jaw and Hummingbird).
  • Suvudu podcast-interviews Mur Laffterty (Playing for Keeps).
  • Locus Online posts interview excerpts from Locus magazine with Ursula K. Le Guin (Lavinia).
  • @The BookSpot: Jeff VanderMeer (Predator: South China Sea).
  • @Mike Brotherton’s blog: Tobias S. Buckell (Sly Mongoose).
  • @Dragon Page Cover to Cover: Edward M. Lerner (Juggler of Worlds).
  • @Sojourners: Mary Doria Russell, author of The Sparrow and Children of God. (Free registration reuqired.)
• Over at SciFi Scanner, Todd Brown says SciFi and Horror Were Once One and the Same Thing. I think he means Waterworld. Hi-yo!
• Guardian Books Blog asks: Which character has the worst name in fiction? Just about all the Star Wars characters, I’d say. [via BookNinja]
• @Sojourners: Gabriel McKee asks: Why Does God Need a Starship? “That question sums up the entire attitude of science fiction toward religion: science fiction wants a God from whom we can demand answers.”
• At Critical Mass, author Kit Reed talks about writers embracing the Internet: “For those of you with shortened attention spans: a friend is writing his novel on Twitter. A plot twist in every tweet. One editor at a major publishing house expects her authors to spend several hours a week burnishing their Internet presence. With print book review space compressing geometrically, writers by the thousands are hurling themselves into cyberspace.”
• Orbit reports: “Hachette Book Group is creating a new publishing division that will include both Orbit and Yen Press (the company’s Graphic Novel and Manga imprint).”
• Arachne Jericho explains Why the Vampire Romance is Taking Over Your Grocery Market Shelf.
• Gabriel McKee (The Gospel According to Science Fiction) knows Why Heroes isn’t good now, wasn’t good before, and will never be good in the future.
• Karen Burnham supplements her SF Signal review of Greg Egan’s Incandescence with some more thoughts.
• Free Audio Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @PodCastle: “Scar Stories” by Vylar Kaftan, read by Jack Mangan.
  • @The Classic Tales Podcast: Part Three (the conclusion) of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, read by B.J.
  • @Well Told Tales: “Feeders” by Diana Kemp-Jones, read by Sonia Perozzi.
  • @The Internet Archive: “Wanted – 7 Fearless Engineers!” by Warner Van Lorne, read by many readers.
  • @Pseudopod: “Furnace Room Lullaby” by Leah Bobet, read by “The Word Whore”
• Mini-Galleries:
  • @SciFi Wire: Stargate Universe concept art.
  • Michael May’s Adventureblog features a Wonder Woman gallery. Mmmmm…Wonder Woman…
• Here’s a Dyson Sphere FAQ to suit all your Dyson Sphere needs.
• Buzz Aldrin says that the 1st manned mission to Mars should be a one way trip.
• Stephen Hawking is retiring. No word on whether he will pursue his career in Rap music.
• Suggestive Obelisk Warning! Hugo Gernsback (Amazing Stories) started a digest called Sexology: The Door to Sex Enlightenment. [via Boink Boink...er...I mean Boing Boing]

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