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SF Tidbits for 12/9/08
- May the Fish Be With You. Petco and PetSmart are both offering this R2D2 Aquarium on sale for about $80.
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @SciFi Scanner: Timecrimes Director Nacho Vigalondo.
- @Bibliophile Stalker: Gavin J. Grant, publisher and editor of Small Beer Press and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.
- Russell Kirkpatrick talks about his novel Dark Heart.
- @Sci-Fi Fan Letter: Brent Weeks (The Way of Shadows).
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
- Vonda McIntyre has made some of her fiction available for free download in PDF, mobi, and html, including her 1997 Nebula award winning novel The Moon and the Sun. [via Grasping for the Wind].
- @Manybooks.net: Starman's Quest by Robert Silverberg (1958).
- @Best SF Presents: "Isabel of the Fall" by Ian R. MacLeod (2001).
- @Fantasy Magazine: "A Trail of Demure Virgins" by Sara Saab.
- @Strange Horizons: "The Same Old Story" by Naomi Bloch.
- Ideomancer has a new issue featuring fiction and poetry by George S. Walker, A.C. Wise, Rachel Swirsky, Marsheila Rockwell, David Kopaska-Merkel, and J.C. Runolfson.[via The Elephant Forgets]
- Audio Fiction @Variant Frequencies: "The End of Flesh - Part One" written and read by Matt Wallace.
- Audio Fiction @Subterranean Press: "Thousandth Night" by Alastair Reynolds.
- @Unbound, Geek Monkey thinks about When Lit Goes Sci-Fi (and Vice Versa): "Are writers of predominantly science fiction and fantasy getting the acclaim and respect they deserve? More and more, happily, the answer seems to be 'yes.'"
- The Clarion Foundation has announced the faculty for the 2008 Clarion Writers Workshop: Holly Black, Larissa Lai, Robert Crais, and Kim Stanley Robinson with Elizabeth Hand and Paul Park team teaching the final two weeks. The Workshop will run for six weeks from June 28 to August 8, 2009.
- There's an interesting discussion going on at the Asimov's forum about Husband/Wife Teams in SF.
- Best SF's Mark Watson reviews Subterfuge by Ian Whates.
- Torque Control offers another round-table discussion, this one on Benjamin Rosenbaum's debut collection The Ant King and Other Stories. At the table: Abigail Nussbaum, Martin Lewis, Niall Harrison, and Dan Hartland.
- Karen Burnham reviews A Companion to Science Fiction by David Seed at Fruitless Recursion.
- Meanwhile, Jim C. Hines asks: What Makes a Useful Review?
- Publishers Weekly's Person of the Year is...Amazon's Jeff Bezos!
- Dan Rabarts's obituary for Hugh Cook has been published. [via Steve Wilson]
- We all claim we've seen lots of bad SciFi. If that's true, then you'll score big on this quiz: Bad SciFi on the Big Screen.
- EOS is having a Neal Stephenson-themed giveaway: head on over for a chance to win a signed copy of Anathem, a special advance reader copy of The Confusion, a CD with with accompanying music for Anathem, and an Anathem t-shirt.
- Topless Robot lists The 10 Most Awesome Sci-Fi Themed Music Videos Ever.
- GalleyCat has an update on the tremendous outpouring of support towards the HelpVera fundraising drive.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Tuesday December 09, 2008 at 12:09 AM
© Tuesday December 09, 2008 at 12:09 AM SF Signal
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That Hugh Cook obituary isn't by me, I just passed it on. It was written by Dan Rabarts.
Posted by Steve on Tuesday December 09, 2008 at 12:54 AM at 12:54 AM
Apologies for the confusion. Fixed. Thanks!
Posted by John on Tuesday December 09, 2008 at 1:51 AM at 1:51 AM