SF Tidbits for 12/4/08
By John DeNardo |
Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at
12:05 am
- Interviews & Profiles
- @Tor: A Q&A with Dave Gibbons, the artist behind Watchmen.
- @Popular Science: Robert Zubrin (How to Live on Mars). [via Marooned]
- @Suvudu: Five Questions with Sean Williams (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed).
- @Fandomania: Doctor Who scribe Terrance Dicks.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @QDII: “Super Salesman of Space” by Tom Alexander (1941).
- @Manybooks:
- “Medal of Honor” by Mack Reynolds (1960).
- “Lease to Doomsday” by Lee Archer (1956).
- @Space Westerns:
- “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin’s (1954). Best. Story. Evar!
- “Her Day in Court” by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt.
- Audio Fiction:
- Spider Robinson reads John Varley’s “The Persistence of Vision“. [via Boing Boing]
- @Escape Pod: “Hoarding Colored Rags” by Jared Axelrod, read by Mike Swirsky.
- @StarShipSofa: Fiction by Jay Lake and Ted Kosmatka in the latest Aural Delights.
- Screw Mundane! S. Andrew Swann speaks out in defense of sense of wonder. As we sometimes need to reminded, sense of wonder and deep characterizations are not mutually exclusive.
- John Scalzi says SciFi is the battleground between science and religion. “…in our common culture, science and religion often take antagonistic roles towards each other — just pair off a creationist and someone versed in evolutionary biology, let them go five rounds, and you’ll get the typical view.”
- Can you guess Neil Gaiman’s three favorite books?
- SF/F publisher Pyr has a Facebook page.
- J. Michael Straczynski says they are trying to preserve the storytelling style in the adaptation of World War Z by Max Brooks.
- SciFi Wire has posted first pics from Wolverine. Meh.
- Orbit is giving away Goodie-Bags filled with books.
- Cory Doctorow and Futurismic have some nice things to say about Lou Anders’ Fast Forward 2 anthology.
- StarShipSofa has launched the first ever StarShipSofa awards: The Sofanauts!
- Sci-Fi Fan Letter has your Christmas Fantasy & Sci-Fi Reading List.
- The latest video episode of Kevin Maher’s SciFi Department lists 5 Great Movies That Spawned Terrible Television Shows.
- At Geekend, Jay Garmon lists Geek books that should (not) be movies already.
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The Doctorow-Rosenbaum novella “True Names” (which is in Fast Forward 2) has just been released as a Creative Commons download. Details at http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/02/fast-forward-2-origi.html
Thanks, OldMiser! We’ll pick this up in the next batch of free fiction. In the meantime, I’ve updated our post with the contents and the introduction.
In updating the post with the Fast Forward 2 contents, you might want to include the link to Bacigalupi’s story “The Gambler” ( http://pyrsamples.blogspot.com/2008/11/fast-forward-2-paolo-bacigalupis.html ).
Good catch!