SF Tidbits for 11/24/08
By John DeNardo |
Monday, November 24th, 2008 at
12:06 am
- Robert J. Sawyer will be recording the introductions for Audible.com’s upcoming unabridged releases of Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End and Rendezvous with Rama.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- Free fiction at FeedBooks: The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (1872). Sharp eyes readers will recall this as one of the Young Adult SF/F Books That Adults Will Like, Too.
- Free Audio Fiction @Beam Me Up: “D.M.V.” by Richard Kadrey, read by Paul Cole.
- Mike Brotherton reads his story “Pearl“.
- Starting November 24 2008, BBC Radio 7 will broadcast an unabridged reading of Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis. [via Marooned]
- James Wallace Harris is Defining Science Fiction: “After pursuing hundreds of hours of meditation on the subject, I want to define science fiction as a belief system rather than an art form…”
- Here’s why David J. Williams writes science fiction: “I’m writing science fiction because it’s the only literature that addresses the issue of our long-term survival (or not) as a species.”
- Geeks are Sexy is sharing videos, specifically The Story of the Mars Rovers.
- Mark Teppo is guest-blogging on Ecstatic Days Nov. 24-28.
- Tesseracts #12, edited by Claude Lalumière, features fiction from E.L. Chen, Randy McCharles, Derryl Murphy, David Nickle, Gord Sellar, Grace Seybold, and Michael Skeet & Jill Snider Lum; and introduction by Brett Alexander Savory.
- Things John Scalzi should know: How to say “Bacon” in Sign Language. [via Cynical-C ]
- It Doesn’t Have To Be Right lists Top 10 Obscure SF Films.
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Re: Young Adult SF/F Books That Adults Will Like, Too. — that was such a great list, but I was still surprised that no one mentioned D.M. Cornish — I know he’s kind of hard to categorize, but he does fall into SF/F, yes? (If anyone is interested, we just <a href=”http://writingya.blogspot.com/2008/11/wbbt-day-two-dm-cornish.html” target= _blank>interviewed him</a>.) And the Half-Continent has a lot of appeal.