SF Tidbits for 11/11/08
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at
12:05 am
- Interviews & Profiles:
- Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist interviews Tom Lloyd, author of The Stormcaller. [via Locus Online]
- The Forbidden Planet has a nice video interview with Mark Millar.
- @Bibliophile Stalker: Mike Allen, editor of the anthology Clockwork Phoenix.
- @The Journal News: Kelly Link.
- @Fantastic Reviews: Daryl Gregory (Pandemonium).
- @MilSciFi: Andy Remic (War Machine an BioHell)
- Coming Up: Joseph Mallozzi has put out a call for questions for his upcoming interview with Brian Lumley. (He also reviews Lumley’s Necroscope.)
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Fantasy Magazine: “Scatter and Return, the Eyes of the Princess” by Willow Fagan.
- @Strange Horizons: Part Two of “Return” by Eric Vogt.
- Audio Fiction:
- @Spider on the Web: “The Persistence of Vision” by John Varley, read by Spider Robinson.
- @Beam Me Up: Part One of “Nine Sundays in a Row” by Kris Dikeman, read by Paul Cole.
- @PodCastle: “Okra, Sorghum, Yam” by Bruce Holland Rogers, read by An Owomoyela.
- Jayme Lynn Blaschke has posted a video trailer for Fast Ships, Black Sails, the Ann & Jeff VanderMeer pirate anthology in which he appears. See a cavalcade of the book’s writers made up like pirates! Arrr!
- Cory Doctorow reviews Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross.
- Geeks of Doom have posted A Beginner’s Guide to Neil Gaiman
- SciFiChick offers a 5-Page preview of The Dresden Files: Storm Front #1 graphic novel.
- Matt Hughes has posted Jay Lake’s introduction to Hughes’ novel Template . [via Locus Online]
- This week, Grasping for the Wind’s Inside the Blogosphere feature talks about Religion and SF.
- io9 looks at Science Fiction Romance novels.
- Good Blog talks about a method for socially responsible book-buying: “Many laud the virtues of buying books from independent bookstores, and I’m all for that. I focus, however, on what I buy, not where I buy it…” [via Bookninja]
- Ellen Datlow (via Gordon Van Gelder) compiles a list of choice quotes about science fiction from The New York Times‘ Dave Itzkoff. My favorite: “I sometimes wonder how any self-respecting author of speculative fiction can find fulfillment in writing novels for young readers.”
- Strange Horizons asks: What Killed the Robot Soldier? “Did the Army finally decide that it would be prudent to wait until something more lethal was developed?”
- SciFi Scanner points out the existence of this awesome Bruce Campbell Doll…er…I mean action figure
- Lists:
- @Topless Robot: The 8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Which Most Desperately Need Movies.
- @Mental Floss: 5 TV Shows that Predicted the Future.
- @Tor: Top 10 Superhero Love Spats.
- 5 Things John Scalzi Wants.
- @Discover Magazine: 10 Best Post-Apocalypses.
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John, science fiction romance lovers everywhere salute you. Thanks for the linkage to my Tor piece and for mentioning the io9 article.
Ann VanderMeer is co-editor on the pirate antho, and in fact did 75% of the work, including the video.
Apologies! Link fixed.