SF Tidbits for 11/17/08

• The Guardian offers Rocket Men: A brief history of the jetpack!
• Over at Joseph Mallozzi’s blog, Brian Lumley, author of Necroscope, answers reader questions.
• The latest Time Traveler Show podcast features Vernor Vinge. Additional recordings made at Penguicon 6.0 feature John Scalzi, talks about sf’s cultural relevance, Self-Promotion, and Podcasting. [via SFFaudio]
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • Dark Worlds links to free online versions of “The Gifts of Asti” by Andre Norton, “Curse of the Monolith” by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, and several John Wyndham stories.
  • Antipodean SF has a new issue up featuring fiction by Mark Farrugia, Manipulations by Kurt Kurchmeier, Jillian Moffatt, Richard Ridyard, Shaun A. Saunders, Greg Wickenhofer, John Craig, PS Cottier, Adrian Gibb, and James C. Clar.
  • Audio Fiction @Beam Me Up: Part Two of Two of “Nine Sundays in a Row” by Kris Dikeman, read by Paul Cole.
• Cover Pr0n:
  • Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie. [via A Dribble of Ink]
  • Nova War by Gary Gibson. [via Walker of Worlds]
• Over at The Swivet, guest blogger Courtney Summers debunks four myths about writing YA fiction.
• Apex Publications is extending their raffle to replace stolen and damaged books.
• Norilana Books is publishing Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress XXIII edited by Elisabeth Waters, the 23rd volume of the classic fantasy anthology series featuring stories of powerful and remarkable women, both warriors and power-wielders, who bravely act to change their worlds with magic or sword or sheer power of character.
• Jason Sanford lists his picks for The Best SF/F Short Fiction of 2008.
• SFX has a spoilery preview of Watchmen, based on the first 30 minutes of the two-and-a-half hour film.
• Tor has a cool proof-of-concept video of the hand wave thingy from the film Minority Report.
• “I’m sorry, I can’t do that, Dave. I’m made of paper.” Super Punch shows us a papercraft HAL-9000.

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