SF Tidbits for 1/13/09
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link have announced that there will not be a new edition of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror this year. (Although their post sounds like the series is permanently gone.) Meanwhile,, series co-editor Ellen Datlow announced that she will most-likely edit two volumes of a new annual horror series for Night Shade
- Interviews:
- @Agony Column, Rick Kleffel podcast-interviews Lou Anders.
- @Bibliophile Stalker: Tobias Buckell
- Coming Soon! This week (Thursday, 1/15/09, 1:00pm EST), The Beyond features Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones in a conversation about the movie Coraline and Jones’s book Coraline: A Visual Companion, which chronicles the making of the movie. [Eos]
- SciFi Wire profiles Ellen Datlow (Poe).
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Strange Horizons: “Greetings from Kampala” by Angela Ambroz.
- @Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire: part two of “Easy Money” by Abner Senires.
- @Fantasy Magazine: “The Moon, A Roman Token” by Darren Speegle.
- @Polu Texni: “Very Truly Yours” Part I, by Seth Gordon.
- Audio Fiction:
- @ScottSigler.com: part six of Contagious.
- @LibriVox: Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling, read by icyjumbo.
- @Miette’s Bedtime Story Podcast: “The Hyannis Port Story” by Kurt Vonnegut.
- Audible.com is offering a free download of the audio book Neil Gaiman’s “A Study In Emerald“.
- Awards News:
- Daryl Gregory wins the 2008 The Crawford Award, awarded to outstanding new fantasy writer whose first book was published in 2008, for his novel Pandemonium (See SF Signal review). See also: previous winners.
- Sci Fi Wire does the math and hunorously tells us How to Buy a Hugo Win. Hmmm…Maybe “SF Signal for Best Fanzine” starts with a charity drive!
- Cover Pr0n:
- John Picacio shows off the cover art for Drood by Dan Simmons.
- The Agony Column shows off Picacio’s cool covers for Mark Chadbourn’s Age of Misrule.
- Charlie Huston is guest-blogging over at Omnivoracious this week.
- In case you were ever wondering how a book get made, Galleycat presents: The Book Industry in a Nutshell. [via Swivet]
- Total Sci Fi offers this 2009 Movie Preview.
- io9 lists The Coolest Robots of Pre-Golden Age SF.
- Den of Geek lists Top 24 worst special effects of all time.
Related posts:
- SF Tidbits for 10/10/06
- SF Tidbits for 2/15/08
- SF Tidbits for 3/4/07
- SF Tidbits for 2/8/07
- SF Tidbits for 9/20/08
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The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror is one of the best anthologies I’ve read. I think it’s the best fantasy related one. I look forward to it each year. I’m sad now.