SF Tidbits for 2/20/09

• Watchmen tidbits
  • The theatrical release of Watchmen – Can’t wait! – clocks in at 2 hours and 37 minutes. The DVD/Blu-ray releases will be even longer…as in 3 hours and 10 minutes long for the Director’s Cut DVD in July. But wait! There’s more! A ginormously long “Ultimate Watchmen Cut” due in the Fall will be 3 hours and 25 minutes. That’s a lot of Watchmen goodness. I sure hope it’s good.
  • On the plus side, Wil Wheaton has seen Watchmen and raves about it.
  • Super Punch, meanwhile, points us to a Flickr gallery of The Watchmen as food.
  • SCI FI Wire posted behind-the-scenes portraits from Watchmen.
  • Entertainment Weekly seduces Watchmen noobs with this Watchmen movie primer for Watchmen virgins.
  • Or for those less inclined, here’s some merchandising gone too far: Watchmen condoms. Whoever is watching the Watchmen must be a Peeping Tom! [via Keith R.A. DeCandido]
• Interviews & Profiles:
  • Jay Lake video-interviews Ken Scholes (Lamentation)
  • Self-Publishing Review interviews Rudy Rucker (Postsingular).
  • Mur Lafferty podcast-interviews Holly Lisle (Hawkspar: A Novel of Korre).
  • Gail Z. Martin podcast-interviews Juliet E. McKenna (Irons in the Fire).
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • The latest Starship Sofa podcast features fiction by Ted Kosmatka and Edward M Lerner.
  • From Manybooks.net:
    • “The Great Gray Plague” by Raymond F. Jones (1962).
    • “My Father, the Cat” by Henry Slesar (1957).
    • “Moment of Truth” by Basil Eugene Wells (1957).
• Game designer Greg Costikyan has rewritten his classic 1979 SPI game Vector 3 “a 3D space combat board game” and released it under a creative license. [via freewargamesrules]
• Editor Ellen Datlow has posted the table of contents of her anthology Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy.
• Cover Pron: The Pyr blog shows off the cool covers of Blood of Ambrose by James Enge and Brasyl by Ian McDonald.
• EVENT: As part of the Fantastic Fiction reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Stewart O’Nan (A Prayer for the Dying) & Paul Tremblay (Compositions for the Young and Old) Wednesday March 18th, 7pm at KGB Bar in NYC.
• Convert Google Book previews to PDF with this freeware app called Google Book Downloader. It will only convert those pages available for viewing, of course, and it requires Microsoft .NET. [via Download Squad]
• SFX wants your opinion on The Greatest Screen Vampires of All Time.
• Unreality lists 5 Christ Figures as Depicted in Science Fiction/Fantasy Movies.
• Not a Planet Anymore lists The Top 10 Doctors of SF. And by “Doctors” he means “physicians” so, no, Doctor Who doesn’t make the list. (Though as a guess, I’d say he be at the top of a list titled “Top 10 SF Characters You Might Think are Doctors, But Aren’t”.)

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