SF Tidbits for 2/23/09
By John DeNardo |
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at
12:06 am
- The Philip José Farmer International Bibliography interviews Christopher Paul Carey, the editor of Farmer’s forthcoming collection, The Other in the Mirror. [via Win Scott Eckert/a>]
- Retro Cover Pron: Here’s a way-cool Flickr photo set of Ron Turner pulp covers. [via Neat Neat Neat]
- Apex Publishing sends word that they are planning to release The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar, an anthology of genre short stories from around the world.
- Jonathan Strahan on the Hugos: “The awards are important, and being nominated is an enormous honor. Disenfranchising anyone is a decision that should be made cautiously and compassionately.”
- Jeff VanderMeer offers A Teacher’s View of Clarion South 2009. (See also, his Omnivoracious entries.)
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
- Australian SF ‘zine Antipodean has its 129th issue up with free fiction by J D Brames, Liam Thorpe, Steve Duffy, Jan Napier, Mick Dawson, Shaun A Saunders, Mark Farrugia, Houston Dunleavy, Houston Dunleavy, and Felicity Dowker. [Via Beam Me Up]
- @Hub: “Montgolfier Winter” by Alasdair Stuart.
- Author/Game Designer Greg Costikyan has a set of four of short stories from Asimov’s, Analog, and Aboriginal online at his website.
- Audio Fiction:
- LibriVox its Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 011 by many Authors and readers
- Beam Me Up has part one of “Devining Light” by Ted Kosmatka and “Butter Side Up” by Shaun Saunders, both read by Paul Cole.
- @Pseudopod: “The Greatest Adventure of All” by Ian McHugh, read by Alasdair Stuart.
- @Dunesteef: “Lonely Heart Clob” by Michael Stone.
- @The Cthulhu Blog: “The Mark of the Beast” by Rudyard Kipling, read by William Coon.
- For those that track Oscar winners: Wall-E won for best animated film and Heath Ledger won for best supporting Actor.
- Mike Brotherton wants your choice for The Best SF/Fantasy/Horror Movie Soundtrack. I like outdated 80′s synth music as much as the next guy, but Ladyhawke? That has to be a red herring.
- Giveaway Reminder: It’s not too late to enter our giveaway contests! See details to win:
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