SF Tidbits for 2/19/09
By John DeNardo |
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 at
12:05 am
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @SCI FI Wire: Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, co-authors of Escape From Hell, sequel to their 33 year-old novel Inferno.
- @The Black Library: Chris Roberson (Dawn of War II).
- The Reddit Blog interviews John Joseph Adams, editor of The Living Dead.
- @Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review: David Moody, author of Hater.
- Omnivoracious looks at the work of Alan Moore beyond Watchmen.
- Boing Boing points us to this PDF scan of Rolling Stone‘s 1975 profile of Philip K. Dick.
- John Scalzi on media tie-ins: “The assumption that tie-in novels are all hackwork is just that, an assumption…”
- @Suvudu: Richard K. Morgan on Tolkien: “The great shame is, of course, that Tolkien was not able (or inclined) to mine this vein of experience for what it was really worth – in fact he seemed to be in full, panic-stricken flight from it.”
- Over at Pyr-o-Mania, David Louis Edelman says that the only redeeming quality of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories is the character of Holmes himself.
- Cover Pr0n: Christopher Paul Carey exhibits Bob Eggleton’s cover for The Other in the Mirror by Philip José Farmer.
- Real Science: Brain scans suggest that readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations. [via J.M. McDermott]
- Gizmotron offers up The Definitive Guide To Steampunk Gadgets.
- io9 lists 9Scifi Books That Deserve To Be Films.
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That Tolkien link isn’t half bad. But then, I happen to agree. Absolute Good v. Evil has never much appealed to me, no matter how impressive the world building.