SF Tidbits for 11/19/08
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at
12:07 am
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @Agony Column Podcast: Dan Simmons (Drood).
- @Chasing Ray: Editor Ellen Datlow (Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural).
- @SFX: Toby Frost (God Emperor of Didcot).
- @Book Spot Central: Jetse de Vries (former Interzone co-editor and editor of the upcoming “optimistic sf” anthology Shine).
- @Blogging the Muse: Elizabeth Bear (All the Windwracked Stars).
- @SciFi Scanner: Orson Scott Card (Ender in Exile).
- @The Nebula Awards: Steve Berman (Vintage: A Ghost Story).
- @SciFi Wire: Chris Pine, your new Captain Kirk.
- @SciFiDimensions: Frank Spotnitz, co-writer and co-producer of The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
- @SciFi Wire: John Noble (Walter Bishop on Fringe – the best character on SciFi television today).
- Upcoming: The Fangs, Fur, and Fey team (Mark Del Franco, Kate Smith, Ilona Andrews, Jordan Summers, Cheyenne McCray, and Jeri Smith-Ready) talk about world building. Hosted by Diana Gill of Eos.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- Issue One of Arkham Tales featuring fiction by Mike W. Barr, Scott Bastedo, Steve Calvert, Robert Masterson, Benjamin W. Olson, Derek Rutherford, Jenny Schwartz, and Jeffery Scott Sims [via Monster Rally and The B-Masters Cabal].
- @Polu Texni: Part IV (the last installment) of “The Slaying of Winter” by Vera Nazarian.
- Audio Fiction:
- PodCastle: “The Princess and the…” by Marie Brennan, read by Ann Leckie.
- @Maria Lectrix: Part Three of “The Risk Profession” by Donald E. Westlake, read by Maureen O’Brien.
- @Zombie Astronaut: Metropolis and four episodes of The Night Watch.
- Authors reviewing Authors:
- SF author Robert J. Sawyer is hosting a 17-part half-hour documentary series for Canada’s Vision TV entitled Supernatural Investigator, which premieres Tuesday, January 27 2009. Sweet deal!
- Rudy Rucker on the early days of cyberpunk. [via Yatterings]
- Artist Bob Eggleton is getting his Mars on.
- The BBC has posted a huge archive collection of Doctor Who documents and images detailing the show’s origins. Check out The genesis of Doctor Who. [via Outpost Gallifrey]
- Lists:
- @AstroEngine: Top 5 Space Robots.
- @Fantasy Magazine: 5 Reasons to be Psyched about Watchmen.
- @Omnivoracious, Joe Abercrombie lists 6 Reasons to read Joe Abercrombie.
- @SciFi Wire: 6 Scariest Environmental Doomsday Movies.
- @Topless Robot: The 10 Biggest Robot Bastards.
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Thanks for the Dan Simmons interview. I love Simmons and I love Dickens, so the two combined makes me do a happy dance. Can’t wait until February!