SF Tidbits for 10/7/08
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at
12:05 am
- Over at Subterranean Online, artist John Picacio dissects the work he did for Muse of Fire, the latest book by Dan Simmons. Another winner.
- Interviews & Profiles:
- Speaking of John Picacio, over at FearNet.com John interviews horror author Mario Acevedo (The Nymphos of Rocky Flats).
- @OrbitBooks: David Farland talks about his book WorldBinder and Pamela Freeman talks about her novel Deep Water.
- Author Michael Marshall Smith will be on The Beyond today at 10:00 AM EST to discuss his latest book, The Servants. Stop by and ask a question.
- @SciFi Wire: Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan and Tim Robbin, stars of the upcoming fantasy film City of Ember.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Subterranean Online: Part 2 of “Mirror of Fiery Brightness” by Chris Roberson.
- @Manybooks: “It Could Be Anything” by Keith Laumer (1963).
- @Strange Horizons: “Swan Song” by Joanne Merriam.
- @Feedbooks: The People of the Ruins by Edward Shanks (1920).
- @Fantasy Magazine: “Yell Alley” by Nicole Kornher-Stace.
- Chizine has a new issue of dark fiction up with fiction by Paul Tremblay, Alex O’Neal, and Brenta Blevins. [via SF Scope]
- Free Speculative Fiction Online as a ton of new free fiction listed by Christopher Anvil, Elizabeth Bear, Terry Bisson, Emma Bull, Hal Duncan, Theodora Goss, Jay Lake, Ruth Nestvold, Susan Palwick, Edgar Pangborn:, Tim Pratt, M. Rickert, Lucius Shepard, Will Shetterly, Greg van Eekhout, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and many more.
- @Polu Texni: “The Slaying of Winter, Part I” by Vera Nazarian.
- “The Transhuman Singularity“, a science fiction virtuality space opera by Michael Blade
- Audio Fiction:
- @PodCastle: “The Fable of the Octopus” by Peter Beagle, read by Stephen Eley.
- Spider on the Web has a new podcast up featuring excerpts from Starseed and Society’s Child.
- Phil Rossi’s podcast novel Crescent is available for free download in MP3 [via SFFaudio]
- Neil Gaiman continues his book reading tour. How does that affect you? He’s posted (so far) video of himself the first 6 chapters of The Graveyard Book. [via File 770]
- Niall Harrison, Adam Roberts, Graham Sleight and Karen Burnham engage in a discussion about Stephen Baxter’s Flood.
- Suvudu looks at the origins of Urban Fantasy: “…here are two urban fantasy authors I’d say are overlooked more times than not — Raymond E. Feist and Terry Brooks!”
- Over at the Asimov’s forum, people are naming The Best New Stories Of 2008.
- At Tor, Jon Evans looks at SF gems from the literary ghetto.
- Nathan Lilly has updated the Convention Finder web site.
- Real Science @Space.com: Huge Planet Defies Explanation: “Astronomers have sighted a very dense planet-sized object that orbits its parent star in just four days and six hours.”
- More real science: If you are reading this then last night’s asteroid did not kill me.
- More steampunk Star Wars goodness at Gorilla Artfare: Steampunk Boba Fett.
- The Daily P.O.P. asks: How Scary is the Joker? Bonus: a classic fist-fighting Joker action commercial. Joker does karate!
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