SF Tidbits for 12/20/08
By John DeNardo |
Saturday, December 20th, 2008 at
12:05 am
- SCI FI Wire profiles R.M. Meluch, author of Strength and Honor
- Suvudu has 5 Questions for Ken Scholes (Lamentation).
- David Louis Edelman is interviewed by Fast Forward and Post-Weird Thoughts.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- Audio Fiction:
- @Subterranean Press: “Thousandth Night” by Alastair Reynolds, read by Sam A. Mowry. [via SFFaudio]
- Zombie Astronaut has two Ray Bradbury stories, “There Will Come Soft Rains” and “Usher II” read by Leonard Nimoy.
- @The Classic Tales Podcast: “The Goblins and the Gravedigger” by Charles Dickens, read by B. J.
- @Pseudopod: “Blood, Snow, and Sparrows” by Joshua Alan Doetsch, read by Ben Phillips.
- @The Time Traveler: “Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas” by R.A. Lafferty, read by Gwendolyn Jensen-Woodard. [via SFFaudio]
- @Mindflights: “Gaming Real Life” by K.C. Shaw.
- @Afterburn SF: “Ismay’s Run” by Joanne Hall.
- “Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire” is a new, weekly web serial by Abner Senires about a pair of guns-for-hire trying to eke out a living in the 2042 in the California Free State metroplex of Bay City.
- Audio Fiction:
- Jo Walton reviews C.J. Cherry’s Cyteen.
- Paul Cornell looks at Marvel Essentials.
- Forest J. Ackerman did coin the term “sci-fi” and not Robert A. Heinlein, as detailed at File 770
- Cheryl Morgan On Genre and Literature: “The real issue here is confusion of tropes with genre. There is a (perhaps understandable) tendency for people to assume that if a book is set in the future, has spaceships in it, or whatever, then it must be a generic science fiction novel with a hackneyed plot and poorly defined characters. Not only is this an unwarranted generalization, it also misses the fact that science fiction itself is not a genre.” [via Jay Lake]
- David Gerrold’s long-suppressed gay Star Trek episode finally sees the light of day today. [via io9]
- Jeff Somers shares a random musing about Battlestar Galactica and romance in sci-fi. [via Orbit]
- Happy Birthday to Best Science Fiction Stories!
- Ellen Datlow is looking for a “strong, catchy, evocative, serious title” for her upcoming horror anthology.
- Lou Anders really likes Mark Hamill’s Joker.
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