SF Tidbits for 12/2/08

• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @SciFi Wire: Jack McDevitt (The Devil’s Eye).
  • @Bibliophile Stalker: Lucius Shepard (The Best of Lucius Shepard).
  • @Apex Magazine: Micahel A. Burstein (I Remember the Future).
  • @Suvudu: Five Questions with Kevin J. Anderson (The Edge of the World).
  • @Blogging the Muse: Cynthia Felice (Promised Land).
  • @Adventure in SciFi Publishing: Tom Lloyd (The Stormcaller).
  • @Agony Column Podcast: Elizabeth Bear (All the Windwracked Stars) and Jonathan Carroll (The Ghost in Love).
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Fururismic: “Willpower” by Jason Stoddard.
  • @Strange Horizons: “The Same Old Story” by Naomi Bloch.
  • @Fantasy Magazine: “Geddarien” by Rose Lemberg.
  • @Hub: “Under Offer” by Gary McMahon.
  • @Cosmos: “Loop” by Peter J. Bentley.
  • The December issue of Niteblade Fantasy and Horror Magazine is out with free online fiction and poetry, including “Shop Talk” by Sanford Allen.
  • Audio Fiction @Escape Pod: “From Liquid to Glass” by J. R. Blackwell, read by Rachel Swirsky
  • @Maria Lectrix: The Ultimate Weapon (Ch. 1) by John W. Campbell, Jr.
  • @Subterranean online:
    • “Spring Training: A Lucifer Jones Story” by Mike Resnick
    • “The Seed of Lost Souls” by Poppy Z. Brite
  • @Apex Magazine:
    • “A Night at the Empire” by Joy Marchand.
    • “Organ Nell” by Jennifer Pelland
    • “The Barrow-Maid” by Christine Morgan
    • “Harris On the Pig: Practical Hints For the Farmer” by Anil Menon.
• Cover Pr0n:
  • John Picacio shares his cool Elric artwork from Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress omnibus, #3 in Del Rey’s currently-running reprint series. Also, congratulation to John for the selection of one of his Elric interior artwork pieces for inclusion in Spectrum 15.
  • Happy Cthulhumas! It’s the cover of Postscripts #17.
• Why Mike Brotherton loves fantasy.
• Jo Walton looks at Swearing in Genre Fiction (NSFW).
• Lou Anders, stemming from a discussion with Mark Chadbourn (Age of Misrule), asks: Is There a Silver SFnal Lining to the Recession? Says Chadbourn: “…SF/F/Crime always does *exceptionally* well in economically difficult times.”
• David Langford has posted Ansible #257.
• A new issue of SF Site has been posted.
• Angry Robot, the upcoming contemporary SF and fantasy imprint from HarperCollins, has added Assistant Editor Lee Harris (the founder of Hub magazine) to their team.
• Eos blog has details on how you can win a batch of free EOS books.
• Suvudu lists The Top 10 Horror Movies of 2008.
• Portable Learner has a reading list for Alternate History and Time Travel.
• William Shatner’s talk show, Raw Nerve, premieres tonight week on the Biography channel. Here’s a clip from the first show with Valerie Bertinelli. [via Geeks of Doom]
• As advertised: Steampunk Star Trek Wallpaper. Awesome. [via The Steampunk Workshop]

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