• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Manybooks:
    • Eight Keys to Eden by Mark Clifton (1960).
    • @Fantasy Magazine: "Merry Christmas" by Stephen Leacock (1914).
    • "The Jupiter Weapon" by Charles L. Fontenay (1959).
  • Audio Fiction @Transmissions from Beyond: "The Last Reef" by Gareth L Powell, read by Bob Eccles.


• Interviews and Profiles:
  • SciFi Wire talks to Orson Scott Card about the Ender's Game sequels, film, and games.
  • @The Nebula Awards: Ted Chiang.
  • John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Lesley Livingston, author of the young adult fantasy Wondrous Strange.


• Author Edward Willett is quoted in the Winnepeg Sun on the magic behind Santa Claus.


• The vivacious Heather Massey of sf/f romance site Galaxy Express is guest-blogging at Dear Author, where she talks in detail about the branding of science fiction & fantasy romance and discusses challenges and solutions. One solution: "Clearly establish SFR as a subgenre by releasing it from the paranormal umbrella...While there's crossover at times, wolves, vampires, and demons have little to do with aliens and nanotechnology." [via Lisa Paitz Spindler]


• Larry at OF Blog of the Fallen offers An Outsider's Perspective of Reading Tie-in Fiction: "A well-written, well-developed tale that takes into consideration the reader's possible lack of knowledge of all the other related stories might succeed better than a fiction that is so full of references to other stories that it seems at times as though those other stories are the main overarching plot and not what is transpiring in that particular tale being read."


• SciFI Wire asks: Which SF "Bubble" Shows Will Die?


• I don't usually post book contract information, but SF Scope is reporting something that really piques my interest: "George Mann sold The Ghosts of Manhattan and an untitled sequel to Lou Anders at Pyr. Anders describes the book as a "steampunk superhero" tale." Suh-weet! I really enjoyed Mann's steampunk Sherlock Holmes/Doctor Who mash-up The Affinity Bridge, so the though of more steampunk from the same mind has me stoked.


• How many classic SciFi televsion characters can you spot in dusty Abell's s awesome drawing of TV's Sci-Fi and Superheroes? [via Chris Roberson]


• Cracked lists The 20 Most Ridiculous Batman Covers. [via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine]


• In hindsight, it's easy to see that the people who first thought of Steampunk Star Wars and the people who thought of Lego Star Wars were aiming too low. Behold: Steampunk Lego Star Wars!

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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday December 24, 2008 at 12:05 AM
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