Free eBook: The Crooked Letter by Sean Williams
Pyr is now offering The Crooked Letter: Books of the Cataclysm: One by Sean Williams available as a free PDF download. From the book description: When mirror twins Seth and [...]
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February 2009
Saturday YouTube: Joe Abercrombie
Fantasy writer Joe Abercrombie discusses the inspiration behind his latest novel, Best Served Cold, with Blackwells’ Marcus Gipps. (Contains all 5 parts of the [...]
SF Tidbits for 2/28/09
@BlogTalk Radio interviews Jeffrey Ford (The Drowned Life). @The Bat Segundo Show interviews Charlie Huston (The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death). Authors reviewing [...]
[UPDATED] FINALISTS: 2008 Nebula Awards
The finalists for this year’s Nebula Awards have been announced: [Note: Title links go to free online versions] [3/2 UPDATE: The Nebula site has announced corrections. [...]
Friday YouTube: Alternate Ending for Back to the Future
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Download eBooks from Book View Cafe
Members of Book View Cafe have started to release select titles of their work as eBooks. Readers were requesting downloadable versions of the stories that now appear [...]
SF Tidbits for 2/27/09
Cover Pr0n: The Black Library has posted Hardy Fowler‘s awesome artwork for Chris Roberson’s upcoming Warhammer 40K novel, Sons of Dorn. Interviews & [...]
What’s the Worst Book You’ve Ever Read?
Adam Whitehead rediscovered David Langford’s SFX list of Top 20 Pre-1990 SF Novels: The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe Little, Big by John Crowley The City and the [...]
GIVEAWAY REMINDER: Kim Harrison and Gail Martin Freebies Still Up For Grabs
Consider yourself reminded! There is still time to enter our currently running giveaways: White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison Book + Extras Signed Copies of The Blood [...]
Video: Why Dan Simmons Wrote Drood
Suvudu has a series of videos featuring Dan Simmons talking about Charles Dickens and his latest book, Drood. I’ve taken it upon my geeky self to assemble all 7 parts [...]
Which Science Fiction Stories Would Make Good Films?
Put on your thinking caps, sf fans! I mentioned this in a recent tidbits because it was getting late, but I thought this deserved more attention, so here it is… Rusty [...]
SF Tidbits for 2/26/09
Interviews and Profiles: @SCI FI Wire: Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days). @Locus Online: Interview excerpts with Jonathan Lethem. John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Paul [...]
RIP: Philip José Farmer
Sad news… The Official Philip José Farmer Home Page is reporting that Philip José Farmer passed away today at age 91. Farmer is perhaps best known for his [...]
MIND MELD: Who are Your Literary Influences in the Ongoing Conversation of Science Fiction?
Just as readers are sometimes influenced by the fiction they read, so, too, are writers. This week, we asked a bunch of writerly types: Q: The ever-changing landscape of [...]
Wednesday YouTube: The Science of Watchmen
Physics (not physic) professor Jim Kakalios worked as science consultant on the Watchmen film. Here’s what he has to say about the science in Watchmen… Yeah, like [...]
The Shadow Over Innsmouth: The Music Video!
Another great find from Chris Roberson: a musical version of H.P Lovecraft’s classic story “The Shadow Over Innsmouth“, set to a song composed by The H.P [...]
SF Tidbits for 2/25/09
Cory Doctorow says Bruce Sterling’s new book The Caryatids is the best book of 2009. Lou Anders continues his profile of Chris Roberson’s Myriad Universe at [...]
Tube Bits For 02/25/2009
One of the better JRPGs available for the Xbox 360 is Blue Dragon. What you might not expect is that Blue Dragon did well enough to merit its own anime show, which is now [...]
REVIEW: The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko
REVIEW SUMMARY: An extension of Melko’s novella that holds up quite well to the promise of the shorter work. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: John Rayburn meets his double [...]
Behind the Scenes of Star Trek
There’s a little movie opening up soon that you may have heard of, J.J. Abrams’ reboot of Star Trek. Sci Fi Wire has a short ‘behind the scenes’ [...]
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