SF Tidbits for 11/30/08

• Ellen Kushner’s The Golden Dreydl has been adapted for Broadway as The Klezmer Nutcracker, running December 6th 2008 through January 2009, and features Kushner in the cast. [via Locus Online]
• Interviews & Profiles
  • @Locus Online: Excerpts from an interview with Paul Melko (Singularity’s Ring and Ten Sigmas and Other Unlikelihoods).
  • StarShipSofa interviews Richard K. Morgan. [via SFF Audio]
  • The Washington Post profiles M.T. Anderson. [Gwenda Bond]
  • Cititor SF interviews Alistair Rennie (The New Weird, Weird Tales, Electric Velocipede.
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Apex: “Paying It Forward” by Michael A. Burstein (a free sample of Burstein’s collection I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein).
  • @Manybooks: Shapes that Haunt the Dusk, edited by Heney Mills Alden and William Dean Howells (1891).
  • Audio Fiction @Escape Pod:
    • “Skyscrapers” by Rachel Swirsky, read by Ann Leckie.
    • “Karakuri” by Gideon Fostick, read by Dave Leckie.
• Here’s Léna Roy, Madeleine L’Engle’s Granddaughter, on the occasion of Madeleine L’Engle’s 90th Birthday: “It is a beautiful October day in Northwestern Connecticut, the leaves delicious in their gold and red grandeur, the kind of day my grandmother, Madeleine L’Engle would have gloried in.” [via Locus Online]
• The medical-technology blog Medgadget just posted the winners from its third annual medical-SF story contest, which are posted at the site (more free fiction!).
• Russell T. Davies (Doctor Who) has received his OBE for services to drama from the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.
• Fun weekend papercraft: BURN-E Paper Model. [via Super Punch]
• SF universe lists Things SF Fans Can Be Thankful For. I would add that I am thankful for the Fringe bumpers that say when the show will return wo I know how many times to hit my Tivo commercial-skip button. Thanks, Fringe!

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1. SF Tidbits for 5/18/06
2. SF Tidbits Part XVIII
3. RIP: Madeleine L’Engle
4. SF Tidbits for 3/2/07
5. SF Tidbits for 11/3/08

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