SF Tidbits for 10/3/08
By John DeNardo |
Friday, October 3rd, 2008 at
12:08 am
- Did you watch the VP debate last night? Forget those clowns! Vote Shatner/Hasselhoff! [via Eric Nylund]
- Charles Stross clarifies his definition of near-future SF: “In my view, near-future SF isn’t SF set n years in the future. Rather, it’s SF that connects to the reader’s life: SF about times we, personally, can conceive of living through (barring illness or old age). It’s SF that delivers a powerful message — this is where you are going.”
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @SciFi Wire: John Joseph Adams (editor of Seeds of Change).
- @Enter the Octopus: Daryl Gregory (Pandemonium).
- @Wired: Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, the writers behind the upcoming J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- John Joseph Adams has posted two more stories from his zombie anthology, The Living Dead:
- “The Dead Kid” by Darrell Schweitzer
- “Beautiful Stuff” by Susan Palwick.
- Tales of the Zombie War is a website devoted to zombie fiction.
- War Games by KS Augustin, a science fiction romance novel
- Audio Fiction @A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou: “Such Is Fate” by Arsen Darnay, read by Elisha Sessions.
- @Feedbooks: “The Putnam Tradition” by Sonya Dorman (1963).
- @Manybooks:
- Seven Out of Time by Arthur Leo Zagat (1939).
- “I’m a Stranger Here Myself” by Mack Reynolds (1960).
- John Joseph Adams has posted two more stories from his zombie anthology, The Living Dead:
- Locus Online has posted the table of contents for the October 2008 issue of Locus Magazine.
- New Scientist is devoting their 15 November issue to the future of science fiction. Vote for your favorites! [via Michael A. Burstein and Tor]
- Over at the Asimov’s forum, they’re talking about sf/f classics they didn’t care for.
- Now through November, A Slug of Time, a Bite of Stars, and Thou, broadcast on London’s Resonance FM 104.4 on tuesdays, focuses on pulp and avant-garde science fiction classics written between 1935 and 1975 each week.
- Space Westerns is seeking submissions for the 22nd Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction.
- How UncleBear would re-imagine Star Trek: “I also wanted to retain Roddenberry’s optimistic outlook of mankind, rather than going all grim-and-gritty. Here’s what I came up with.”
- Superman’s house is saved! [via SFScope]
- John Scalzi says that For SciFi Sequels, Taking a Chance Makes All the Difference.
- Kevin Maher of SciFi Scanner’s SciFi Dept looks at SciFi Comedies That Worked (and Some That Didn’t)
- Over at Gorilla Artfare, there’s a sketch of a Steampunk Storm Trooper.
- Robin at Bloginhood has stared another blog: Not a Planet Anymore.
- John Anealio serves up another Sci Fi Song: “Beautiful Vampire“, inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Gothic novella “Carmilla“.
- Lists:
- io9 lists 12 SciFi Movie Sequels That Must Never Get Made.
- @ReadWriteWeb: 5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind.
- Stephen King, J.K. Rowling and Dean Koontz make Forbes‘ list of The World’s Best Paid Authors. [via GalleyCat]
Related posts:
- SF Tidbits for 1/10/08
- Zombie Tidbits
- SF Tidbits for 8/17/06
- SF Tidbits for 9/13/06
- SF Tidbits for 7/11/07
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Thanks for the link, John!
We hope all of you will join us for “Blog Like It’s The War Of The Worlds” on October 30th.
Shatner for President! LOL, I love it.