• Free Fiction:
  • A free fiction link for the Hugo-nominated "Article of Faith" by Mike Resnick has been added to the list of 2009 Hugo Award Finalists. (Thanks, Baen's Universe!)
  • Free excerpt @ io9: a Chapter from Dan Abnett's Primeval: Extinction Event, based on the BBC series Primeval.
  • The Cordwainer Smith Blog rounds up free Cordwainer Smith stories (See also: Frederick Pohl's introduction to the Cordwainer Smith collection When the People Fell.):
    • "No, No, Not Rogov!"
    • "War No. 81-Q" (Rewritten Version)
    • "Mark Elf"
    • "The Queen of the Afternoon"
    • "Scanners Live in Vain"
    • "The Lady Who Sailed The Soul"
    • "When the People Fell"


• Rocket Ride Books, which is publishing a reprint (and audio version) of John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?" (the basis for John Carpenter's The Thing), has a new podcast called Masters of SciFi and Horror. The first two episodes feature a profile of the man himself, John W. Campbell, Jr. (Listen to part one and part two.)


• Battlestar Galactica tidbits:
  • Serious: "Battlestar Galactica is part of a venerable tradition of science fiction that examines politics and society," says Lou Anders, editorial director for the sci-fi publisher Pyr books.
  • Not-so-serious: Gabriel McKee of SF Gospel celebrated the series finale of Battlestar Galactica in style: with a few friends and The 12 Pies of Kobol


• Cracked lists 6 Supervillains Who Were Actually OK Guys.


• Mike Brotherton begins listing Women Writing Hard Science Fiction and asks for other suggestions.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday March 22, 2009 at 12:08 AM
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