• Boris and Julie Vallejo show off the spectacular new artwork for John Carter of Mars. Nice!
  • Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
    • The January 2009 edition of Apex Magazine has fiction from Ruth Nestvold and Jason Palmer, and reprints from Eric James Stone and Ed Turner.
    • @Behind the Wainscot: fiction and poetry by Neil Ayres and E. Sedia, Mariev Finnegan, Berrien C. Henderson, Nicole Kornher-Stace, James Owens, Genevieve Valentine, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Ann Walters, F. J. Bergmann, and Marion Boyer.
    • “Memory #30” by Jayme Lynn Blaschke.
    • Audio Fiction:
      • @The Cthulhu Podcast: “Hoarde of Gibbelins” by Lord Dunsany, read by Mark Smith and “The Book, Pursuit, the Key” by H.P. Lovecraft, by Colin Timothy Gagnon.
      • @The Zombie Astronaut numerous radio dramas including “Alpha” and “Omega” and others.
  • Subterranean Press announces two new Jack Vance projects.
  • Enter the Octopus has posted the final version of the book trailer for Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow.
  • James Wallace Harris continues his thoughtful essays with Science Fiction’s False Assumption: “Since the earliest days of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon the public has assumed the future of mankind included space travel. The inherent assumption was humans would extend the range of civilization into space, across planets and moons, and then out to the stars. I’m starting to wonder if that’s a false assumption. “
  • The World in the Satin Bag lists 5 Things Every Science Fiction Story Should Have.

Related posts:

  1. SF Tidbits for 3/17/08
  2. SF Tidbits for 5/23/08
  3. SF Tidbits for 4/4/06
  4. SF Tidbits for 11/27/07
  5. Listen Here to Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast!

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