SF Tidbits for 11/10/08

• Locus Online has an online PDF version of Locus Magazine‘s October 2008 issue.
• Locus Online also notes these remembrances of Michael Crichton: USA Today, Mark Steyn, Michael Berry in San Francisco Chronicle, Alan Cooperman in Washington Post, Ronald Bailey in Reason, and Dave Itzkoff in New York Times, who says Crichton was “too big for the 25-cent bin of genre fiction”. Way to warm the cockles of our collective heart, Itzkoff.
• In the Los Angeles Times: The Internet vs. books: Peaceful coexistence: “The instant knowledge provided by the Web is invaluable, as is the deeper communion provided by books.”
• @I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused: Post-Apocalyptic, Slasher, and Fantasy: What the Film Genres of the late 1970s and Early 1980s Tell Us, part one: “In my opinion, the post-apocalyptic genre truly defined the era…I think the popularity of these movies reflected the Zeitgeist of a post-Vietnam and increasingly post-modern America where trust in government and authority had eroded, oil prices shot through the roof (especially relevant for Mad Max), and industrial jobs began to dry up.”
• Cherie Priest will be guest-blogging at Ecstatic Days November 10-14.
• Matthew Cheney is guest-blogging at The Swivet.
• Ellen Datlow shares photos from World Fantasy Con.
• Interviews and Profiles:
  • The ABC Book Show interviews Ursula K. le Guin (Lavinia). [also via SFFaudio]
  • Mur Lafferty of I Should Be Writing 2.0 interviews Benjamin Rosenbaum (The Ant King and Other Stories). [via SFFaudio]
  • The BBC’s Writer’s Room interviews Russell T. Davies [via Forbidden Planet]
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Manybooks: Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by George W. M. Reynolds (1847).
  • @ManyBooks: “The Man Who Came Early” by Poul Anderson (1957).
  • @F&SF: “The Only Known Jump Across Time” by Eugene Mirabelli.
  • @Feedbooks: Curious, If True: Strange Tales by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1858).
  • Audio Fiction @Escape Pod: “Beans and Marbles” by Floris M. Kleijne, read by Stephen Eley.

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2. SF Tidbits for 3/31/08
3. SF Tidbits for 3/9/08
4. SF Tidbits Part XVIII
5. SF Tidbits for 5/5/08

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