SF Tidbits for 10/4/08

• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • Free Excerpts: The Quiet War by Paul McAuley: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4A, Part 4B, and Part 5.
  • @Manybooks: “Cully” by Jack Egan (1963).
  • Apex Magazine has a new issue up with fiction by Lavie Tidhar, Erik Williams, Nathan Rosen, Ryan C. Thomas, and Adam Roberts.
  • Audio Fiction
    • @Pseudopod: “Spurling’s Virus” by Michael Savastano, read by Ben Phillips.
    • @Clonepod: “FF-4 The Seventh Reflection” by Kimberley T. Bradford, read by Leslie Moore.
• Interviews:
  • @Joseph Mallozzi’s blog: Sarah Langan (The Keeper).
  • @Tor: Artist Bill Carman.
  • @Omnivoracious: Brian Francis Slattery (Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America).
• Another interesting discussion over at the Asimov’s forum: What music do you think of when you think of SF?
• From a SciFi Standpoint reviews Dream Makers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers At Work by Charles Platt and cites some interesting facts about science specific fiction writers: “A. E. van Vogt spent much of his interview babbling about Dianetics, est training, and other psycho-nonsense. He came across as a total crackpot, saying that psychology needed saving and he might be the one to save it.”
• Eyrie of the Arch-Anarch lists Essential Science Fiction and Fantasy for Libertarians.
• Tor has posted Better Zombies Through Physics #02.
• William Shatner will star as the voice of Santa Claus in the Rankin-Bass-esque animated Gotta Catch Santa.
• AMC is developing an adaptation of Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson.
• Do you know who’s a PC? Tron Guy! (To see his video, close the dialog, click “PC Stories”, scroll up, and you should see him amongst the small handful of videos that Microsoft has posted.)
• James Earl Jones Is Still Not Dead: “…why the hell is the most popular Google search on the planet right now ‘James Earl Jones Dead’?” Sweet Jebus, I hope I that’s not my fault.

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