SF Tidbits for 1/24/09

• SCI FI Wire profiles David Marusek (Mind Over Ship).
• @Agony Column Podcast: Sean Stewart reads at SF in SF
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Infinite Canvas: “The Day The Saucers Came” by Neil Gaiman. [via Big Dumb Object]
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @Well Told Tales: “A Parliament of Me” by Patrick Hurley, read by Andy Catt.
    • @The Classic Tales Podcast: part three (the conclusion) of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol, read by B J Harrison.
    • @Timothy Callahan Podcasts: The Arwen seasons one, two, and three. [via Apex]
• At Time Magazine, Lev Grossman talks about the future of book publishing. “We think of the novel as a transcendent, timeless thing, but it was shaped by the forces of money and technology just as much as by creative genius.” [via Locus Online]
• Nancy Kress has more proof that publishing is changing: “Hardcover books chosen by editors and backed by corporations will always be there, but will become “only the tip of a huge pyramid” of publishing.”
• Dave Truesdale talks about the singularity in his F&SF article Through The Singularity Glass: The Emperor’s Rice Revisited. [via Locus Online]
• SciFi Wire gives a rundown of SciFi Comic Book Tie-ins.
• The Interzone Readers’ Poll is beckoning! [via Jason Sanford]
• Updates to the list of sf/f authors who blog (Thanks, Michael!):
  • Mad Genius Club, a group blog featuring Rowena Cory Daniells, Dave Freer, Sarah A. Hoyt, John Lambshead, Louise Marley, Pati Nagle and Jennifer Stevenson.
  • Michael Z. Williamson, author of several Baen books, including the freely downloadable Freehold.
• Mary Robinette Kowal writes For Harry Potter, Magic Means More Than Hocus Pocus: “Though fantasy plays havoc with the rules of nature, it’s really just swapping out one set of rules for another. We’re talking about magic here, folks, and the rules of magic for each fantasy universe are as diverse as the universes themselves.”
• Real Science: A new study suggests that the far side of the moon could have been visible from earth billions of years ago. And in an unrelated story, NASA Sees Far Side of the Sun. What is it with this sudden fascination of the ass-end of celestial bodies?
• Slice of SciFi says: Star Trek will enter the world of Blu-Ray beginning May 2009! And there was much rejoicing.
• Chris Roberson follows up a previous art post with a full-color version of Dusty Abell’s TV’s Sci-Fi and Superhero Characters montage. Nice.
• I’m no longer a fan of Battlestar Galactica, but this steampunk Cylon is really cool. It’s a contest so would-be artists (or is that “wood-be”?) can join in. [via Newsarama]
• Cool art: Jason Chan’s Zombie Playground.

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