SF Tidbits for 1/17/09

• Watchmen news:
  • Fox and Warner Brothers announced that they have resolved their legal battle over the release of Watchmen. Bottom line: it will be released as scheduled on March 6. Yay!
  • Can’t wait for the film? Amazon is offering Watchmen motion comics for PC viewing. Basically, it’s a narrated, animated version using art from the graphic novel…at $1.99 for each of the 12 chapters. Previews are free!
• Interviews and Profiles:
  • @Tor/Forge’s Blog: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (Bones of the Dragon).
  • @Neth Space: Hal Duncan (Escape From Hell!).
  • @BookSpot Central: Matthew Sturges (Midwinter).
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Mindflights: “Soulsong” by Rabia Gale.
  • @The Scientific Indian: “Noah’s Ark” by Narendra Desirazu. [via Variety SF]
  • Audio Fiction: @The Classic Tales Podcast: part two of three of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, read by B. J. Harrison.
  • Free Excerpt: Orbit has published chapter one The Accidental Sorcerer by K.E. Mills.
• Cover Pron:
  • Wake by Robert J. Sawyer.
  • Midwinter by Matthew Sturges.
• Fantasy with a big F: “A group of fantasy authors have teamed up to launch a new award celebrating the genre and the bestselling author David Gemmell, who died in 2006.”
• In January Magazine: “The suitability of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 classic The Handmaid’s Tale has been challenged at a Toronto school…”
• Mary Robinette Kowal delves into Middle Earth’s Civil Rights Movement.
• John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Charlie Huston, author of The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death.
• Richard Bowes talks about The Mosaic Novel. [via Jeffrey Ford]
• Locus has a news blog!
• For the writers: Ellen Datlow is editing a new anthology series, Best Horror of the Year from Night Shade Books, and is currently reading for the first volume, which will be released this year and include material originally published in 2008. She has also posted a Call for Submissions to Best Horror of the Year Volume Two, to be released in 2010 and covering fiction published in 2009.
• Lists:
  • io9 lists SF Writers’ Cruddiest (And Craziest) Day Jobs.
  • @SciFi Wire: 16 things you might not know about Star Trek’s beloved villain Khan.
  • @SciFi Wire: 6 obscure Prisoner films you need to see (plus the comic that never was)

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