SF Tidbits for 12/7/08

• Suvudu has 5 questions for David Anthony Durham (Acacia).
• StarShipSofa interviews Danie Ware of Forbidden Planet.
• Gabriel McKee on Why John Scalzi is wrong about SF and religion . Well, sorta…
• J.M. McDermott shares why indie bookstores are extremely nifty: “Independent bookstores reflect the inner life of the community that they serve.”
• Listen to Robert J. Sawyer (Rollback) on CBC Radio One’s science program Quirks & Quarks.
• No Fear of the Future has an SFWA update on proposed Google Books/Author’s Guild settlement.
• Rich Horton continues his 2008 summaries of shoprt fiction venues with reviews of Talebones, Jim Baen’s Universe, Abyss & Apex, Lone Star Stories, Ideomancer, Kaleidotrope, Flytrap, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Electric Velocipede.
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Afterburn SF: “The Magic Menagerie” By Yvonne Eve Walus.
  • @Every Day Fiction: “Death is a Weird Shade of Pink” by M.Sherlock.
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @Spider on the Web: Spider Robinson reads his story “The Magnificent Conspiracy.“
    • @Escape Pod: “Silence” by Rachel Swirsky, read by Ann Leckie.
    • @LibriVox:
      • Short Science Fiction Collection 007, read by many readers.
      • Jimbo by Algernon Blackwood, read by Adrian Praetzellis.
• Remember that idea a had waaaay back about building your own customized anthology? Here’s a site that will do it for you. [via File 770]
• HelpVera is a fundraiser and charity auction with the goal of helping speculative writer and publisher Vera Nazarian save her house from foreclosure.
• Justine Larbalestier shares a video of a marvelous Lego Batman cake.

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1. SF Tidbits for 9/7/08
2. SF Tidbits for 8/28/07
3. SF Tidbits for 10/19/08
4. SF Tidbits for 2/1/07
5. SF Tidbits for 11/5/08

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