SF Tidbits for 10/8/08

• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @Macmillan: a video interview with Takashi Okazaki, author of (Afro Samurai) [via Tor's MySpace page].
  • @About.com: Neal Stephenson (Anathem).
  • @Joseph Mallozzi’s blog: Glen Cook (The Black Company).
  • @Blood of the Muse: Charlie Huston (Every Last Drop).
  • @ActuSf: Hal Duncan (The Book of All Hours duology).
  • @Blogging the Muse: David B. Coe (Weavers of War).
  • @The Nebula Awards: Bruce Sterling.
  • CNN profiles:
    • Margaret Atwood on the Economy.
    • Neil Gaiman about The Graveyard Book.
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @io9: Read The First 10 Pages of Marvel’s Enders Game comic.
  • @Manybooks: “Get Out of Our Skies!” by E. K. Jarvis (1957).
  • Byzarium has a new issue up with fiction by Daniel Braum, Elizabeth Hopkinson, Louise Norlie, and Georgina Bruce.
  • Jason Stoddard has just posted “1337 in 2012” [via Futurismic]
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @LibriVox: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, read by Great Plains.
    • @LibriVox: “The Willows” by Algernon Blackwood, read by Michael Thomas Robinson. [via SFFaudio]
    • @Maria Lectrix: part 6 of 7 of “Code Three” by Rick Raphael, read by Maureen O’Brien.
• Terry Pratchett writes bout living with Alzheimer’s: “I’m slipping away a bit at a time… and all I can do is watch it happen.” [via Locus Online]
• The Virtual Bookmark surveys Canadian Science Fiction: “Canadian Science Fiction writers are amongst the best in the world…”
• Ken @ Neth Space looks at the young adult stigma: “I’m noticing a sad, somewhat disturbing, and growing trend – the disdain and dismissal of anything even hinting at being ‘YA’.” As I’ve said before..Hey! What’s Your Beef with Young Adult SF/F?
• Sean Williams reprints an essay in which he discusses how writing a Star Wars book fits into his writing process: “The Force Unleashed is the fourth novel I’ve written for the Star Wars franchise. Some people wonder why I’d ever do such a thing. Others understand immediately.”
• Tobias Buckell shows off the final cover of Halo, out November 25th.
• Dark Roasted Blend has an Overview of Pulp Art. [via Science Fiction Brewed Fresh Daily]
• The recent Star Trek revival shocks Patrick Stewart.
• There’s an awesome Star Trek memorabilia gallery at My Star Trek Scrapbook. [via QuasarDragon again]
• Real science: Your brain is so complex, you can’t even begin to understand it.
• Events:
  • Pure Speculation (October 18th and 19) is a Canadian sci-fi and fantasy festival, run by geeks for geeks. Guest include Robert J. Sawyer, Monte Cook, Herman Lau, Diane Walton, Robin S. Carson, Minister Faust and more. [via Jim Shannon]
  • How can science bloggers draw on science fiction’s power to entertain and educate? Attend ScienceOnline-09′s Science Fiction on Science Blogs panel (Jan. 16-18, 2009 at the Sigma Xi Center in Research Triangle Park, NC), featuring Peggy from Biology in Science Fiction and find out!
• Contest: Win a trip to the 2009 New York City Comic-Con Convention and interview Tamora Pierce (the Beka Cooper series) by signing up for the Random House Strange Lands Newsletter.
• Lists:
  • @Hecklerspray: The 26 Hottest Star Trek Babes.
  • @Campus Squeeze: 7 Movies That Required Scientific Inaccuracy To “Make Sense”.
  • @Topless Robot: The 5 Most and Least Shameful Dungeons & Dragons Characters.
  • @JeffBots: Robots Of The Silver Screen.
  • @YepYep: My Top 5 Post-Apocalyptic Movies.
  • @Bookslut: Suggestions for canonical works of sf before there were awards.

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1. SF Tidbits Part LVI
2. SF Tidbits for 10/7/06
3. SF Tidbits for 1/7/07
4. SF Tidbits Part VII
5. SF Tidbits for 2/2/06

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