SF Tidbits for 3/13/09
By John DeNardo |
Friday, March 13th, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Interviews & Profiles
- Joseph Mallozzi has questions for Nancy Kress (Steal Across the Sky).
- Tor offers a profile of The Domino Men by Jonathan Barnes.
- @The Bat Segundo Show: Charlie Huston (The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death), part 2.
- @Adventures in SciFi Publishing: David Louis Edelman (MultiReal) (one of the last remaining podcasts before it goes on hiatus until 2010).
- The Steampunk Workshop has a video interview with steampunk Artist Tom Sepe.
- Authors and Their Millions:
- Easy Come…: Audrey Niffenegger gets $5M for second novel Her Fearful Symmetry, about two twins, a London apartment, and the ghost of their aunt. Robert J. Sawyer says she’s worth it.
- …Easy Go: Meanwhile, a court has ordered novelist Clive Cussler to pay $13.9 million in legal fees in a court battle Cussler initiated after the adaptation of his novel, Sahara.
- Mike Brotherton knows Why Science Fiction Rules the World (but not enough): “…the truth of it is that we fans of science fiction have capabilities that the general public lacks, to enjoy novelty and think about difficult concepts.”
- John Scalzi tells us Why Video Game Movies Suck.
- Free Fiction:
- @Tor.com: “Eros, Philia, Agape” by Rachel Swirsky.
- For a limited time, you can read Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr online for free. [via Tor]
- Audio fiction:
- @Book View Cafe: “Something For Everyone” by Jennifer Stevenson.
- @Free reads: James Patrick Kelly reads part 2 of his story “Bernardo’s House“.
- Free Sample: Chapter 1 of This Is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams.
- Kung Fu Rodeo points us to this NSFW gallery of Bodypainted Superheroes.
- The resemblance between Vartox and Zardoz is amazing. [Inspired by Mightygodking]
- The well-done opening credit sequence of Watchmen hit the web…then was promptly removed. It spread all over to places which are having to take them down. As of this writing, they could still be found here.
- Lists:
- @Not a Planet Anymore: The Top 5 Badass Superheroes. Of course you can have the #1 spot, Mr. Rorshach, sir! [please don't kill me...please don't kill me...]
- @SciFi Watch: Top 5 Post Cyberpunk Writers Writing Today.
- @IGN: I10 Games That Need More Zombies.
- @VideoHound: 8 Complaints about Watchmen That Are Hard to Dismiss.
- @Switched: 10 Films That Would Flunk Science Class. [via Enter the Octopus]
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Re: The Credit Sequence
I truly wonder why the powers that be are trying to surpress it. Its badly needed positive buzz about the movie.
Thanks for the link, John!