SF Tidbits for 2/24/09

• Bibliophile Stalker interviews Peter Crowther, publisher (PS Publishing) and Editor (We Think, Therefore We Are).
• Lou Anders gives an awesome profile of Chris Roberson’s wonderful Celestial Empire series at Tor.com. Part 2 coming soon! (See also: SF Signal’s review of some Celestial Empire stories.)
• Cover pr0n: Orbus by Neal Asher.
• John Joseph Adams announces the publication of a reprint anthology, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which will contain tales of both mystery and the fantastic. Hopefully, there will be little overlap with Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, which waits patiently in “the archives”…
• Ellen Datlow has posted photos from a recent Edgar Allan Poe event featuring Gregory Frost, John Langan, Laird Barron, and Poe editor Ellen Datlow.
• Pitfalls of Prophecy: Why Science Fiction So Often Fails to Predict the Future, an essay by Gary Westfahl, identifies the seven Fallacies of Prediction, debunks some of SF’s current predictions about the future, and offers some predictions of his own. (See also: Our own Mind meld on which predictions Golden Age Science Fiction got right & wrong.)
• Technology publisher Tim O’Reilly on why the Kindle should be an open book: “Unless Amazon embraces open standards, the Kindle’s lead will become a very short story.” [via MobileRead]
• Free LucasArts Game Posters are available for download. [via GeekSugar]
• Automopedia lists The 15 Sexiest Science Fiction Ships.
• I *so* would have loved this Space Invaders alarm clock back in the 80′s. These days, I see the alarm clock for what it truly is: an instrument of the Devil.

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3. Read Chris Roberson’s Three Unbroken Online for Free
4. SF Tidbits for 2/14/08
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