SF Tidbits for 10/31/08

• 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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