SF Tidbits for 2/12/09
By John DeNardo |
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 at
12:05 am
- 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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Great number
For Clarke Award, Longlist would imply some judgment by the award’s committee. Niall’s post appears to say that those are just the books that were submitted for the award, without any vetting by the award committee.