SF Tidbits for 11/5/08
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 at
12:01 am
- Interviews and Profiles:
- @SCI FI Wire: Michael Flynn (The January Dancer).
- @The Dragon Page: Charlie Huston (Every Last Drop).
- @Agony Column: Kim Stanley Robinson.
- @Locus Online: Ursula K. Le Guin interview excerpt.
- @Blogging the Muse: Carrie Vaughn.
- Free Fiction [via QuasarDragon];
- @Manybooks: “The Cavern of the Shining Ones” by Hal K. Wells (1932).
- Sign up for the newsletter of L. Ron Hubbard reprinters Golden Age Stories and get a free ebook for “The Devil’s Rescue” plus a poster. The site also features the Amazon-ish “Look Inside” feature so you can peruse to your heart’s content.
- New Internet Review of SF has essays by Jay Lake & Ruth Nestvold, Mark Cole, and Jason Ridler, and reviews of books by Tan, Dozois & Strahan, Datlow, Egan, and of short fiction. [via Locus Online]
- Cory Doctorow reviews Spider Robinson’s Very Hard Choices.
- Irene Gallo looks at the cover process for Liberation and Spaceman Blues.
- Several genre titles make the lists of favorite books of celebrities by Stephen King (Ghost Story by Peter Straub), Charlaine Harris (World War Z by Max Brooks, Melusine by Sarah Monette), and William Gibson (Terraplane by Jack Womack).
- Fandomania is Defining the Genre of Military Science Fiction.
- WFC is over. Who has a huge melon? Who was repeatedly hit on the head? Find out when John Picacio shares his World Fantasy Convention pics.
- Outpost Gallifrey notes that incoming Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat said in 1999 that the casting of the next Doctor should go to an older actor.
- Star Wars producer Rick McCallum is helming a new social network called SohoMuse,
- Real science: New Spaceship Force Field Makes Mars Trip Possible! I hear it also keeps the neighborhood kids off the darn lawn, dagnabbit!
- Delivers as advertised: Ergonomic Steampunk Keyboard.
- For the undecided nerd masses: The Star Trek vs. Star Wars Tech Assessment Index
- SciFi Scanner’s SciFi Dept lists The Top Five SciFi Conquerors.
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- SF Tidbits for 8/31/08
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