SF Tidbits for 10/31/08
By John DeNardo |
Friday, October 31st, 2008 at
12:05 am
- William Shatner on his Signature Star Trek Drop Kick. Did he say he had some obnoxious teenager in a headlock?
- Google’s BookSearch goes legit in $45m deal. The SFWA responds.
- Interviews and Profiles:
- @Wyrdsmiths: Diana Pharaoh Francis.
- The latest Adventures in SciFi Publishing podcast features Elizabeth Bear and Tobias Buckell.
- SFX continues their interview with Neil Gaiman (Read parts one, two and three).
- At Tor.com, Irene Gallo profiles artist Goro Fujita and interviews artist Dan Dos Santos. [via Jay Lake]
- @The Dragon PageCover to Cover: Pablo Defendini and Irene Gallo of Tor.com.
- Speaking of artists, The call for entries fo Spectrum 16, a program showcasing fantastic arts, is now open.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Subterranean Press: “Apotropaics” by Norman Partridge
- @Manybooks: “The Risk Profession” by Donald E. Westlake (1961).
- @Hub: “Box of Spoons” by Eugie Foster
- Audio Fiction:
- @Maria Lectrix: Part V, Part VI, Part VII, and the conclusion, Part VIII of “The Creature from Cleveland Depths” by Fritz Leiber, read by Maureen O’Brien.
- @PodCastle: “Colin and Ishmael in the Dark” by William Shunn, read by MarBelle.
- Free Music: John Anealio’s latest Sci-Fi Song, “Lonesome October Night“, is based on Roger Zelazny’s A Night in the Lonesome October.
- The Isaac Asimov Index is a PDF file listing each name that Asimov ever mentioned in any essay he wrote for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (There’s also a contest to collate all the times Asimov said “to be sure”.)
- Steven Gould continues his posts on Behaving Badly as a Career Strategy. See Parts one, two, and three.
- Spider Robinson is this month’s guest-Editor at Audible.com and talks about short stories. [via SFFaudio]
- Here’s why Christopher Nolan’s Batman won’t be seen with The Justice League.
- SyFy Portal looks at SciFi Horror Films.
- SciFi Scanner looks at The Evolution of The Fly and SciFi Overlords.
- A gallery of Popular Movies Recreated In Lego includes some genre favorites.
- Real-life Rayguns! “The most famous weapon of science fiction is rapidly becoming fact.”
- Lists:
- @Fantasy Magazine: Top 10 Steampunk Gadgets.
- @The World in the Satin Bag: Top Ten Worst Science Fiction Shows.
- Lisa Paitz Spindler lists 13 Facts About Nuclear Fusion.
- @Fidgit: The Ten Best Zombie Games of All Time.
- @Wired: 10 Geeky Movies That Should’ve Been Terrible, but Weren’t.
- @SciFi Wire: 7 Sexy Sci-Fi Girl Costumes!
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>>(There’s also a contest to collate all the times Asimov said “to be sure”.)<<
Or all the times one of his characters said “Consider!”?