SF Tidbits for 11/15/08

• Heavy weekend reading: Shambleau…and Others: the role of the female in the fiction of C. L. Moore, a litcrit essay by Sarah Gamble that was published in 1991′s Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction. [via Marooned, who points us, once again, to C.L. Moore's "Shambleau" online.]
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Mindflights: “Knight of Sorrows: Frozen Shadows” by Jonathan Moeller.
  • @Feedbooks:
    • Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany (1915).
    • The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany (1912)
    • Tales of Wonder by Lord Dunsany (1916)
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @LibriVox: Varney, the Vampyre Volume 1 by Thomas Preskett Prest, read by many readers.
    • @Maria Lectrix: Part Two of “The Risk Profession” by Donald E. Westlake, read by Maureen O’Brien
    • @The Classic Tales Podcast: Part One of Two of “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster, read by B. J.
    • @Dunesteef: “The Seas Of Castle Hill Road” by Rick Kennett.
    • @Dial P for Pulp: “Leaving Saturn” written and read by Andrew Culver
    • @Dial P for Pulp: “Prudence” by Kim Sherwood.
    • Zombie Astronaut has a collection of horror audio from the Fresh Blood series.
• io9 interviews James Strickland and Simon Haynes on their experiences with National Novel Writing Month.
• QuasarDragon interviews G. W. Thomas.
• SciFi Japan has a bunch of Forrest J. Ackerman Tributes, and SF Crows Nest has an update on his health.
• Sam Moskowitz Wants You to Know It’s All Donald A. Wollheim’s Fault.
• John Scalzi outlines a book-signing scheme that helps fans and his local independent bookseller. [via GalleyCat]
• Over at SciFi Scanner, Mary Robinette Kowal lists Fantasy Movies for Every Step of Your Relationship.
• Heliopoli has an interesting Philip K. Dick Quote, which reads in part: “…SF is creative and it inspires creativity, which mainstream fiction by and large does not do.”
• New Scientist asks Margaret Atwood, Stephen Baxter, William Gibson, Ursula K Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Nick Sagan: Is science fiction dying?
• Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu just recently won the African Nobel Prize awarded by the Lumina Foundation and presented by Wole Soyinka, the African Nobel Laureate.
• Kathy Dunn tells us that 2009 marks 10 years as a writer for Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (Persistence of Memory), whose first book , the vampire novel In the Forests of the Night, was published when she was just 15 years old.
• Says Variety: Regency Pictures has optioned the screen rights to Isaac Asimov’s 1955 time travel novel, The End of Eternity. [via Slice of SciFi]
• The CG Society just announced their latest challenge: they are asking for steampunk re-imaginings of classic myths and legends. [via Tor.com]
• /Film looks at The Art of WALL-E.
• For quite a while, we have been publishing videos (and links to videos) that are not playable outside the U.S. Well now the tables have turned. The BBC, as part of the BBC’s Children in Need charity, has a video of the pre-titles sequence of the 2008 Doctor Who Christmas special that is only meant for those in the U.K. (Dagnabit!) If any U.K. reader has seen it, tell me how it is! [via Outpost Gallifrey]

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