SF Tidbits for 12/17/08

• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • Scott Sigler has a new a free serialized PDF of his new book Contagious. (There’s also an audio podcast and an online poster scavenger hunt.) [via Tor and BoingBoing]
  • Volume 36 of The Edge of Propinquity is out featuring fiction by Jennifer Brozek, Rick Silva, James M. Sullivan, Ivan Ewert, and Eric R. Lowther.
  • @Polu Texni: Part One and Part Two of “Running Free” by Mark Sherwood.
  • @Viking Society Web Publications: The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise. (PDF) translated by Christopher Tolkien (1960). [via The Cimmerian]
  • Audio Fiction at PodCastle: “Gordon, the Self-Made Cat” by Peter Beagle, read by Barry Deutsch.
• Interviews:
  • Adventures in SciFi Publishing has a podcast interview with Lou Anders about his Fast Forward anthologies. [via Club Jade]
  • The Nebula Awards website interviews Adam Rex.
• Members of Book View Cafe have been invited to speak at the Library of Congress regarding new methods of publication and distribution of literature.
• David Moody (Hater) has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.
• What’s the deal with Alternate Histories being classified as SFF?
• Young Adult Dystopian Fiction and Its Impact: “How Anderson’s Feed and Lowry’s The Giver Affect Young Readers.”
• Fantasy Book Critic continues his survey of authors’ favorites with this latest from L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
• TTA Press is running a subscription special for a limited time: Get a free copy of Black Static #8 with a paid subscription while supplies last.
• Paranormal romance author Diedra Knight is guest-blogging at penguin.com where she introduces the first book of her Gods of Midnight series.
• Tor.com officially announces new features.
• The makers of the Coraline movie (based on Neil Gaiman’s book) have created an alphabet of Coraline cards and are spreading them across the web. (Here’s “S“.)
• The overlords at Amazon UK are apparently slave drivers. [via Andrew Wheeler]
• AMC lists 4 film superheroes with lame powers.
• A long time ago, in a manger far, far away…A Star Wars nativity.
• Something that needs no explanation: The Periodic Chart of Star Trek Babes.

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