SF Tidbits for 2/21/09
By John DeNardo |
Saturday, February 21st, 2009 at
12:08 am
- George R.R. Martin is tired of people complaining about the “lateness” of A Dance With Dragons.
- S. Andrew Swann interviews Mary Turzillo.
- Publishers Weekly‘s Genreville asks publicists: Is an Imprint a Brand?
- Last month, the Guardian ran their list of 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. Now they’ve appended their readers’ all-time favorite science fiction and fantasy novels they missed.
- Jeff Carlson talks about the genesis of his book Plague Year.
- Here’s where Jack Dann gets his ideas…as he wrote in the afterword to his 2001 collection Jubilee.
- Garistotle says Frank Herbert’s Dune Helped Forge My Religious Identity: “…I got more of a religious sense, at least when it comes to who I am as a person, from the Dune novels than I did from The Bible itself.”
- Lists:
- @Bukisa: Top 10 Mythological Men of Science Fiction
- Little Fivers lists Signs a Sci-Fi Geek Is Sick.
Related posts:
- SF Tidbits Part XVII
- SF Tidbits for 11/8/07
- SF Tidbits Part X
- Why Do You Read/Watch Science Fiction?
- SF Tidbits for 11/16/08
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Re George’s comment about people complaining about the lateness of his next book. George is a =writer=, not a typewriter. Dreaming up universes takes time. He’s not a hack. He’s an artist!
Re: GRRM:
That comes close to stalking. Those people act like egomaniacs by putting themselves and their wants in the center of everything. When you are personally offended because you have to wait for sequel you’re a case for a psychiatrist.