SF Tidbits for 12/3/08
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at
12:06 am
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @SciFi Wire: Eric Brown (Necropath).
- @Suvudu: Five Questions with Jacqueline Carey (the Kushiel series).
- @The Nebula Awards: Ysabeau Wilce (Flora Segunda).
- PodBlack Cat interviews sf/f author Michael Stackpole on role-playing games.
- @ActuSF: Sarah Ash (Tracing the Shadow).
- @The Future And You podcast: David Orban, a futurist who talks about spimes.
- From 1999: Jonathan lethem profiles Rod Serling: “…in a culture which devalued and marginalized the imaginative and fantastic element everywhere it detected it — save perhaps a Salvador Dali painting or two — [The Twilight] Zone certainly struck critics as a retreat from relevant, serious, adult work.”
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Fantasy & Science Fiction: Charles Coleman Finlay’s Sidewise Award finalist story “We Come Not to Praise Washington“.
- @Tor.com: “The Film-Makers of Mars” by Geoff Ryman.
- Lone Star Stories has a new issue with speculative fiction and poetry by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Stephanie Burgis, Josh Rountree, Gemma Files, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Amal El-Mohtar and Catherynne M. Valente.
- Reflections Edge has its December issue out with fiction by Angela Ambroz, Stephanie Green, Huw Langridge, and K.V. Taylor.
- @Manybooks: “Master of None” by Lloyd Neil Goble (1962).
- @The Book Depository: Dawnthief by James Barclay [Via Grasping for the Wind]
- Audio Fiction:
- @PodCastle: “Winter Solstice” by Mike Resnick, read by Chris Furst.
- @Zombie Astronaut: Three H. P. Lovecraft stories, Roddy McDowall reading “The Hound” and David McCallum reading “The Rats in the Walls” and “The Dunwich Horror”
- @Dr. Forrest’s Cheeze Factory: the audiobook of Santa Clause Conquers the Martians.
- Short fiction review-meister Rich Horton looks back at Interzone (among others).
- Cover Pr0nage:
- Pyr shows off the wonderful Larry Rostant cover of the upcoming Justina Robson book Chasing the Dragon.
- The Book Design Review has just announced their favorite book covers of 2008. Notable titles include Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison (designed by Jamie Stafford-Hill) and Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon (designed by Jordan Crane) [via Scott Edelman]
- Tobias Buckell is headed home from the hospital. Yay Toby!
- Arrrgh! Keep to the Code is hosting an exclusive video of Jeff and Ann VanderMeer’s Fast Ships, Black Sails. [via Enter the Octopus]
- SciFi Scanner points us to these censored Star Wars trading cards. Sorry, no metal bikinis in sight…which is nowhere near as good as it sounds.
- StarWars.com acknowledges The Star Wars Holiday Special. What’s next? Do they acknowledge that Greedo shot first? (That was for JP.)
- Image gallery: Classic BSG as Drawn by Star Wars Concept Artists.
- Speaking of BSG, the SciFi Channel finally green-lights Caprica.
- RevolutionSF lists Sci Fi Hunks (Vol. 4).
- Real Science: Biology in Science Fiction reminds us that The History Channel has an episode of The Universe that looks at (peeps?) sex in space. From the show description: “Probe the physiological, psychological and cultural challenges of sex in space.”
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Thanks! Yes, the interview with Michael Stackpole was for the Skeptic Zone podcast.