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SF Tidbits for 2/12/09
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @Futurismic: Bruce Sterling (Caryatids).
- @Pat's Fantasy Hotlist: C. S. Friedman (Wings of Wrath).
- @ActuSf: Joe Haldeman (The Forever War).
- @SciFiDimensions: Robert Zubrin (How to Live on Mars).
- @Fast Forward: David J. Williams (The Mirrored Heavens).
- Robert J. Sawyer is interviewed by Italian zine Fantascienza.
- Mur Lafferty's I Should Be Writing podcast features Kim Stanley Robinson interviews by James Patrick Kelly.
- Awards News:
- SFWA has announced the inaugural Solstice Award recipients: Kate Wilhelm, Martin H. Greenberg and the late Algis Budrys. The Awards will be honored during the Nebula Award ceremony in Los Angeles, California on April 24-26.
- Niall Harrison posts the Arthur C. Clarke Award nominees longlist.
- Congratulations to Mary Robinette Kowal, who sold 2 novels (one is Shades of Milk and Honey, her "Jane Austen with magic" novel) to Tor.
- The February/March selections for Joseph Mallozzi's Online Book Club include Infoquake by David Louis Edelman, The Book of Joby by Mark J. Ferrari, Dogs by Nancy Kress, Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl? by Brian Michael Bendis, The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde, and Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe edited by Ellen Datlow.
- Lit Soup reports that there's a new anthology on the horizon: By Blood We Live, a reprint Vampire anthology edited by John Joseph Adams to be published by Night Shade Books.
- In Kindle2 news: The Authors' Guild contends that Kinlde2's "text to speech" software violates copyright, calling it a new derivative work. Yeah, good luck with that whole thing. [via John Scalzi]
- Empire asks: Can Cinema Do Science Fiction? "...as good as those films are, books have still gone further..."
- Meanwhile, Reporter-Times basks in The Joy of Science Fiction Magazines. "As I much as I love watching great science fiction movies and television shows, I find that nothing matches the joy of reading great science fiction."
- Real Science: 2 Satellites Collide in First-Ever Mid-Space Crash. [via Cynical-C]
- Flickr Sets of the Week:
- Detail Man 60 is recreating the classic Star Trek episode "The Cage"...in Lego. [via Bureau 42]
- Star Wars paintings by Alex Leighton. [via Super Punch.]
- Ladies and Gentlemen, I present the world's greatest fan of The Neverending Story. [via Cynical-C]
- Lists:
- @SF Gaate: The 9 Best Star Wars Video Games. [via TheForce.Net]
- @Topless Robot: 7 Sci-Fi Inventions That Are Way Past Due...using the dates they were prognosticated in SciFi films.
- @Car Reviewers: 15 Classic Science Fiction Cars. Sweet rides!
- @MusicRadar: 7 Classic SciFi Sounds and How They Were Created.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday February 12, 2009 at 12:05 AM
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