SF Tidbits for 2/3/09
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @Genrewonk: Paul Melko (The Walls of the Universe).
- @The Nebula Awards website: Karen Joy Fowler (Wit’s End).
- @SciFi Scanner: Billy Dee Williams Reflects on His Fanboys Legacy.
- BookSpot Central interviews Kit Reed (Enclave).
- Bibliophile Stalker interviews Matthew Cheney (Best American Fantasy series).
- David Langford has posted the new Ansible for February 2009.
- Apex Magazine will now be co-released in a PDF edition.
- Lots of good stuff from blogging authors:
- Michael A. Burstein revisit the ides of supporting short fiction.
- Mike Brotherton knows How to Talk with the Mundanes (meaning non-fans): “Seek some common ground and educate. Some common ground we share with the mundanes includes money, fame, space babes/hunks, and coolness factor.”
- Lou Antonelli discusses Buddy Holly and alternate history.
- Over at Tor.com
- Brian Slattery asks: Can meaningful book reviews be written only by people who have written books?
- Kage Baker’s Jekyll and Hyde-a-thon!
- In Orson Scott Card’s latest Audible.com essay, he talks about Ursula Le Guin’s Rocannon’s World. [via SFFaudio]
- Sarah Brandel briefly compares Steampunk vs. Cyberpunk.
- Steve Biodrowski at Cinefantastique is living in Sci-Fi Soap Opera Hell, lamenting the seemingly long-lost days of episodic series that didn’t have story arcs.
- Jeff Patterson at the ever-entertaining Gravity Lens thinks that the pharse “dream team of human and cyborg philosophers” should not be used when describing a Transformers movie.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
- @Hairy Green Eyeball: “In the Scarlet Star” by Jack Williamson (1933) in scanned jpegs.
- @Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire: “Easy Money” – Part Five by Abner Senires.
- @Fantasy Magazine: “Teaching a Pink Elephant to Ski” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz.
- @Strange Horizons: “This Must Be the Place” by Elliott Bangs.
- Issue four of Concept Sci-Fi is out with fiction by Jaine Fenn, Sean Williams, Rod Slatter, “Lee Gimenez and more” and an interview with author Michael Cobley and an excerpt from his book.”
- @Reflections Edge:
- “Sheep Women and Dog Boys” by Ripley Patton.
- “All that Glitters” by Diane Gallant.
- “Keeping House” by Margaret Yang.
- @Lone Star Stories:
- “Chandra’s Game” by Samantha Henderson.
- “Eko and Narkiss” by Jeremy Adam Smith.
- “On the Human Plan” by Jay Lake.
- Preview: The season 2 promo for Shadow Unit is up. [via Elizabeth Bear]
- Calling all artists! The Interstitial Arts Foundation is searching for cover art for our second literary anthology, Interfictions II, coming Nov. 2009 from Small Beer Press.
- Real Science: Is there a solution to The Fermi Paradox? Are aliens just hiding from us like we’re the Richard Simmons of the cosmos?
- Real Space: With Google Earth 5.0, users can now journey to the planet Mars.
- DailyCognition lists The Top 15 Great Science Fiction Books.
- Zombie road signs? That’s so last week. The new cool is zombies jonseing for cupcakes.
- I would so want to live in this Hobbit house if I did not have an irrational fear of being visited upon by the Great Scourge Nimoy.
Related posts:
- SF Tidbits for 10/3/07
- SF Tidbits for 1/11/09
- SF Tidbits for 1/25/09
- SF Tidbits for 1/19/09
- SF Tidbits for 1/2/09
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Regarding my revisit of supporting short fiction: there was once a time in this country when authors could make a living off of short fiction. Then that pretty much faded away, but short fiction periodicals still supported the salaries of editors and staff. I wonder if we’re moving to a new paradigm, where no one will be able to make a living of any sort off of short fiction at all, and all of it will become a labor of love.
Anyway, I say more at the post you linked to and at previous posts.