SF Tidbits for 11/3/08
By John DeNardo |
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at
12:04 am
- Well-known science fiction fan and collector Forrest J. Ackerman has suffered a heart attack and is recuperating at his home. He has our best wishes.
- OF Blog of the Fallen interviews Tobias Buckell
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- Apex Magazine has new fiction by William T. Vandermark, Michael A. Burstein, Livia Llewellyn, Jason Heller, and Carole Lanham.
- Sorcerous Signals has a new issue out with full-length fiction by Robert Collins, Fred Warren, James Lecky, JJ Sergi, Abby Rustad, Gerri Leen, Sandra Panicucci, and Brandon Jones.
- Audio Fiction:
- @Escape Pod: “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham” by H. G. Wells, read by Alasdair Stuart.
- @Beam Me Up: “A Last Day with Mrs. Bloomsbury” by Shaun Saunders, read by Paul Cole.
- Locus Online has posted the contents of the November 2008 issue of Locus magazine, which includes interviews with Greg Bear, Paul Melko and Gardner Dozois.
- Here’s a telling timeline of bringing Frank Herbert’s Dune to the big screen.
- James Nicoll is calling for titles of right-wind right-wing science fiction books.
- Teen Ink lists The Ten Rules of Magic. All hail #9: “Magic, like any other force of nature, must follow consistent rules.”
- Everything I Needed to Know about Space I learned from Ronald McDonald. [via Super Punch]
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RE: James Nicoll is calling for titles of right-wind science fiction books.
Right-wind?
LOL!
At first, I thought you might have meant right-mind, but then that didn’t make much sense either. I mean, what would left-mind science fiction books be around? Starships that had a broken starboard turning signal, and could only make turns to port?
So I clicked on the link…and it’s right-wing science fiction books.
Okay.
I totally agree with Starship Troopers though as an example.
Best wishes, Morjana
Right wind is better than wrong wind, if you know what I mean.
Thanks for the correction.
You know, the interesting thing about that typo is when I clicked it I had a clear picture of what it meant in my head. I figured it had to be something to do jokes (likely fart jokes or something along those lines) and right wing politics in science fiction…maybe I was just going too far with all that, but that’s what I was actually thinking when i clicked the link.
Maybe this is one of those revolutionary typos that will change the face of the Interwebs forever…just like all those other words I seem to have forgotten all of a sudden (probably because they’ve become permanent memebers of my vocabulary…).
Anywho!