SF Tidbits for 1/20/09
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 at
12:05 am
- Bits about Edgar Allan Poe (or as I like to call them “Poe-bits”):
- In this week of Edgar Allan Poe’s Bicentennial, Ellen Datlow has posted the introduction to Poe, her tribute anthology.
- At Weird Tales, Cherie Priest offers up this tribute: Growing Up Poe.
- The New York Times offers this Edgar Allan Poe gallery.
- Bonus from the NYT: What Literature Owes to Edgar Allan Poe, a PDF of an NYT article from January 10, 1909.
- S. Andrew Swann interviews Tobias Buckell (Halo: The Cole Protocol).
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]“
- @Strange Horizons: “The Shangri-La Affair” by Lavie Tidhar
- @Subterranean Press: “Three Fancies from the Infernal Garden” By C.S.E. Cooney.
- @Fantasy Magazine: “The Gnomes Are Coast Guards” by Chantel Tattoli.
- @Genrewonk: “The Historian’s Apprentice” by S. Andrew Swann.
- @Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire: part three of “Easy Money” by Abner Senires.
- Audio Fiction:
- @Pseudopod: “The Interview” by Mike Norris, read by Dani Cutler.
- @Beam Me Up: part two of “People of Sand and Slag” by Paolo Bacigalupi, read by Paul Cole.
- @The Cthulhu Podcast: “The Beast with Five Fingers” by William F. Harvey, read Mark Nelson.
- Scott Sigler has posted chapter seven of his novel Contagious in PDF and MP3 formats
- Cory Doctorow reads from his book Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 3).
- The Swivet points us to this essay on independent booksellers: “…the whole business of books is, has always been, and Gods willing, will always be an irrational, impractical and frankly foolhardy enterprise.
- At Wet Asphalt, Matt Cheney and Eric Rosenfield continue their discussion about critical writing in science fiction. “…there are a number of self-identified SF writers who are innovating but are choosing emphatically to remain part of the SF community, like China Mieville, Kelly Link, Neil Stephenson etc. The question then becomes, is it better to innovate within the community and still have the benefits of that community (James Morrow being an example) or to try to innovate outside of the community because that’s where so much innovation is happening, anyway?”
- S.M. Duke offers advice on writing reviews.
- HBO will premiere the sneak peek TV special Watchmen: HBO First Look on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 6:45 p.m.
- EW lists 20 Black Sci-Fi Icons.
- Reminder for the Artists out there: Deadline for Spectrum 16 entries must postmarked by January 23rd.
Related posts:
- SF Tidbits for 11/1/07
- SF Tidbits for 9/30/06
- SF Tidbits for 6/23/06
- SF Tidbits for 8/8/06
- SF Tidbits for 7/30/06
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I appreciate all the Poe links. Poe and Stoker are the two writers who, in my formative years, made me realize that there was something pretty amazing to be had in ‘the classics’ and from those seeds I grew into a reader with diverse tastes and pleasures. At the beginning of the Cherie Priest post it says, ‘It all goes back to Poe’, and I couldn’t agree more.