SF Tidbits for 1/14/09
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @SCI FI Wire: C.J. Cherryh (Regenesis) and Felix Gilman (Gears of the City).
- @BookSpot Central: Chris Roberson (Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love).
- Here's an essay (from 2004) about Samuel R. Delany written by K. Leslie Steiner.
- @Concept Sci-fi: Peter Crowther from PS Publishing.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
- Catherine Asaro's has posted her novella "The Spacetime Pool" (2008) online at facebook. [via SFScope]
- Lou Antonelli is serializing his alternate history novel Dance With Me Henry.
- @BestScienceFictionStories.com: "The Cauldron" by Rocky Keele.
- @Manybooks: 2012: The Last Will and Testament of The Gods by Mike Cooper (2007).
- Audio Fiction:
- @Pseudopodium: "The Star-Pit" by Samuel R. Delany, a radio drama.
- @Fear on Demand: "Thief of Eyes" by Charles A. Gramlic, read by Glen Hallstrom.
- @Maria Lectrix: Chapter seven of The Ultimate Weapon by John W. Campbell, read by Maureen O'Brien.
- Zombie Astronaut has Nebulous, twenty episodes of Vanishing Point, and twenty episodes of Crisis.
- Iain Banks' next novel, tentatively titled Transition, will be published in September 2009.
- Spider Robinson has three sequels to Variable Star lined up, to be known collectively as The Orphan Stars Trilogy. [via Fred Kiesche]
- Over at Tor.com, Irene Gallo deconstructs Dave Seeley's Luke Skywalker.
- Biology in Science Fiction subnits part III of their series where they ask scientists about the relationship between science and science fiction.
- Christopher Barzak offers Notes Towards a Sort of Supreme Fiction.
- Edward M. Lerner is going to be blogging about truly alien aliens.
- Daryl Dregory reveals The Three Laws of Zombi-ism.
- The list of finalists for the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award has been updated.
- Event: Three contributors (Gregory Frost, John Langan and Laird Barron) from Ellen Datlow's tribute anthology, Poe, will read from their stories Saturday, February 21 at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site.
- One of the readers at The Geek Files is either a hopeless dreamer of a certifiable genius; he thinks that The Dark Knight holds clues to future incarnations of Penguin, Riddler and Catwoman.
- Genre magazine SFX gives a sneak peek at their Five Star SciFi Special
- Find the error in this headline: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About the Star Wars Holiday Special but Were Afraid To Ask. You are correct if you said there is nothing you wanted to know. 5 points for you! [via Darth Mojo]
- Speaking of Star Wars-related things we'd like to purge from our memories...SciFi Scanner dares dredge up that Donny and Marie Did Star Wars.
- SCI FI Wire lists 10 greatest Star Wars moments from The Simpsons
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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday January 14, 2009 at 12:09 AM
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Hey John... you do know that "K. Leslie Steiner" is SRD's alter ego/nom de plume, right?
Posted by Fred on Friday January 16, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Thanks for the Geek Files mention (the Batman villains speculation piece)... and loved your little comment! Best wishes from The Geek Files command centre.
Posted by David Bentley on Tuesday January 20, 2009 at 11:09 AM