SF Tidbits for 2/11/09
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Free Excerpt at Pyr: End of the Century by Chris Roberson.
- Interviews & Profiles:
- The Dragon Page Cover to Cover interviews Matthew Stover, author of Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor and Caine Black Knife.
- Newsarama has a 2-part interview with: Matthew Sturges (Midwinter, which he describes as “Dirty Dozen with elves”).
- Publishing News:
- HarperCollins announced that it is merging its Collins imprint with the Harper division in the U.S.
- Sean Wallace has acquired the Prime Books imprint from Wildside Press, LLC.
- Marty Halpern has accepted a position as a freelance Acquisitions Editor for Wilder Publications genre imprint, Fantastic Books.
- Dark Roasted Blend offers a big-@$$ spreadsheet: The Ultimate Guide to Modern Writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy. [via Jay Lake]
- Michael Chiklis (Thing from the Fantastic Four films) is to create a new comic book series called Olympus, about “ancient Greek gods who return to a ravaged, chaotic present-day Earth where they battle for the future of mankind against the Titans”.
- The Shirley Jackson Awards are hosting a fundraiser lottery from now through February 23rd to benefit the awards. [via Tor.com]
- Squidoo offers this interesting Guide to Science Fiction Roleplaying Games.
- EW has a slew of new Watchmen photos. [via Blog@Newsarama]
- Two words: Zombie car!
- Lists:
- Metromix Chicago lists 10 horror remakes worth seeing.
- Here’s a lits of the Funniest Unofficial Star Wars T-shirts.
- SciFi Scanner lists The Top Ten Moments From New York Comic Con.
- @The List Universe, The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged make the list of Top 10 Most Overrated Novels.
- @Geekend, Jay Garmon lists The top 12 sci-fi plot devices geeks love to hate. (“#12: Computer programs with needless and instantaneous animations and graphics.” I see this in 24 a lot.)
- Two more words: Steampunk Cake! [via Boing Boing]
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Just to clarify the sad HarperCollins news slightly – that’s the US division of HarperCollins closing their Collins imprint, or rather merging it into Harper.
Thanks for the update, Marc. Verbiage fixed.
“Noob: I am your father.” hehehe
oh, one more.. Zombie car. Great artwork such a waste on a lame looking car. I’ll stop now.
Thanks for the link to the sci fi rpg lens!
No problem!
Thanks for the linkage to Teenormous!
brian