SF Tidbits for 11/7/08

• I didn’t know it was possible for my ego to get any bigger…until John Anealio brought this to my attention: a dance remix of “Summer Glau”, the song which John wrote based on my lyrics. (Full story here.)
• On a decidedly more cerebral note, Iain Banks has an article up at New Scientist, Science and Fiction: Escape from the laws of physics: “…having been asked to write about the science in my science fiction, I came to the embarrassing conclusion that there is probably more science in the mainstream books.”
• SciFi Wire interviews Jim Butcher, author of the Harry Dresden series.
• TV Guide interviews Primeval‘s Andrew-Lee Potts about time travel and dinos.
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Subterranean Online: “Waiting for Rain” by Mary Robinette Kowal. [via Variety SF]
  • @Apex Magazine: “Shaded Streams Run Clearest” by Geoffrey W. Cole.
  • “Ill Met in Elvera” by Chris Roberson, which features the first meeting of Hieronymus Bonaventure and Balam, and serves to bridge the gap between the end of Set the Seas on Fire and the duo’s entrance in the pages of Paragaea: A Planetary Romance.
  • The latest issue of Dark Fire features fiction from Michelle Howarth, Sanford Allen, Steven Blake, Holly Vance and Luke Walker. [via Sanford Allen]
  • @Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
    • Part One of “The Crystal Stair” by Charles Coleman Finlay & Rae Carson Finlay.
    • “Kingspeaker” by Marie Brennan.
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @LibriVox: Masters of Space by E. E. “Doc” Smith and E. E. Evans, read by R. J. Davis.
    • @Clonepod: “The Sojourn of Taizen Kiro” by Jeffrey R DeRego, read by Leslie Ann Moore.
• Daily Lit’s Book Samplers features a science fiction smorgasbord of samples.
• Ann and Jeff VanderMeer show off Alien and Predator art and a contest to win free books.
• @Locus Online: Why Cory Doctorow Copyfights: “…if copying on the Internet were ended tomorrow, it would be the end of culture on the Internet too.”
• John Klima has announced the addition of Anne Zanoni to the editorial staff of Electric Velocipede.
• The upcoming optimistic sf anthology, Shine edited by Jetse de Vries, has a…ummm…shiny new website. For more info on the book, head on over to Solaris.
• The Agony Column is also getting a site face lift. Stay tuned!
• At SciFi Scanner, John Scalzi asks What Can Our Next President Learn From His SciFi Counterparts?
• Free advice to the rebels: If you want to defeat the dark side, put butter on it.
• Lists:
  • @Cracked: 5 Awesome Movies Ruined By Last-Minute Changes [via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine]
  • @SciFi Wire: 6 Baddest-Ass Sci Fi Sidearms Ever.
  • @IGN: IGN: Heroes: Six Writers Who Could Fix Failing TV Shows
  • Lisa Paitz Spindler lists Thirteen Facts About Space Junk
  • @io9: Women Who Pretended to Be Men to Publish Scifi Books, though using initials is not really pretending to be a man, is it?
  • @UGO: Top 50 Hottest Sci-Fi Girls.
  • @Not a Planet Anymore: Bloginhood lists Top 10 Doctor Who Episodes/Serials with David Tennant.
  • @Newsarama: The 5 Most Scientifically Plausible Sci-Fi Movies. They also happen to be good films. Coincidence? I think not. (Therefore, I am not. Ba-dum, crash!)

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3. SF Tidbits for 4/10/08
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5. SF Tidbits for 6/20/08

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