SF Tidbits for 2/2/09
By John DeNardo |
Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at
12:06 am
- John C. Wright shares an appreciation of David Lindsay’s Voyage to Arcturus: “No mainstream book can compare for sheer, headlong imagination with a science fiction book, because imagination is the stock-in-trade of science fiction.”
- Clarkesworld interviews Jeff VanderMeer.
- @The Nebula Awards: Cat Rambo interviews Nalo Hopkinson.
- Over at Slashdot, Lawrence Person talks about Difficult Times For SF Magazines, which generates lots of comments. Meanwhile, James Wallace Harris responds: “Maybe what’s needed is for the genre to get down to one magazine. Refocus the field of science fiction.”
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
- The latest Clarkesworld has fiction from Ken Scholes and Berrien C. Henderson, as well as non-fiction from Robert N. Lee and Cheryl Morgan.
- @ Everyday Weirdness: “Everyday Weirdness” by Matthew Sanborn Smith. (See also: the authors flash fiction piece “A Spork In The Road“.)
- @Afterburn SF: “Twilight on Phobos” by Michael Anthony.
- @Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
- “Dragon’s-Eyes” by Margaret Ronald.
- “Of Thinking Being and Beast” by Michael J. DeLuca.
- Audio Fiction:
- @Free Reads: “ Shoppers” by James Patrick Kelly, read by the author.
- @Clonepod: “The Last Dog” by Mike Resnick.
- @Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “Sand-Skin Man” by K. C. Shaw.
- @Beam Me Up “Don’t Stop” by Jim Kelly, read by Paul Cole.
- @Dunesteef: “Good Day” by Saul Lemerond.
- @Chatterbox Audio” “Surfacing, Episode 1: The Judgment of Cambyses” by Kyle Hatley, performed by a full cast.
- @Fear on Demand: “This Old Man Came Rolling Home” by Wayne A. Sallee, read by Mark Nelson.
- @The Cthulhu Podcast: Part one of “The Rats in the walls” by H.P. Lovecraft.
- Locus Online has posted:
- The contents of the February 2009 issue.
- The 2008 Locus Recommended Reading List. [via Jonathan Strahan]
- For those like The Harriet Klausner Appreciation Society who are counting, The Klausner-9000 has posted 243 reviews in January 2009. But don’t get me started…
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