SF Tidbits for 3/19/09
By John DeNardo |
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Frederik Pohl recalls how The Space Merchants was optioned.
- Jay Lake has a fantastic post about The evil of the Google copyright settlement.
- @TrekMovie, Star Trek writer and sf author David Gerrold comments on Harlan Ellison’s recent lawsuit. (See comments #222, #225 and #287.): “Harlan Ellison isn’t the only writer who is affected by this. Other Star Trek writers like DC Fontana (who wrote more episodes of the original series than anyone else and who created the characters of Sarek and Amanda) will also benefit. It is also likely that writers who worked on other series will benefit from the precedent.”
- Interviews and Profiles:
- BBC goes all Mind Meld and asks: Can science fiction keep up with modern science? Responses from Ken Macleod, Paul Cornell, Iain Banks, and Ian Watson.
- The Bat Segundo Show interviews Catherynne M. Valente.
- ActuSF interviews Robin Hobb.
- Gail Z. Martin welcomes JF Lewis (Staked, Revamped) and Juliet McKenna (Irons in the Fire) to he Ghost in the Machine podcast.
- @Fantasy Book Critic: Sarah Ash (Flight Into Darkness).
- @SFX: Alex Proyas, director of Knowing.
- Stephen Euin Cobb’s latest The Future And You podcast David Drake.
- Brenda Cooper Tidbits:
- Brenda Cooper has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.
- Brenda is guest-blogging at Adventures in SciFi Publishing and offers writing advice.
- Andy Remic has an audio promo for his latest book, Biohell. (About midway down the page)
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
- @Strange Horizons: “Nira and I” by Shweta Narayan.
- @Fantasy Magazine: “Birds” by Jean-Claude Dunlach, translated by Sheryl Curtis.
- @Subterranean Press: “The Dry Spell” by James P. Blaylock.
- The latest Starship Sofa includes audio fiction from Kim Newman.
- James Patrick Kelly podcasts part 3 of “Bernardo’s House“.
- Paul Jessup lists his favorite free eBooks. [via A Dribble of Ink]
- The way Alien vs Predator should have been filmed: playing chess.
- Suvudu lists 5 Genre Authors I Didn’t Know Were Irish.
- SciFi Wire lists sci-fi actors who turned politician.
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- SF Tidbits for 1/2/08
- SF Tidbits for 7/10/08
- SF Tidbits for 2/5/09
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The way Alien vs Predator should have been filmed: playing chess – only gives me a 500 Internal Server Error. And this I wanted to see …
Link fixed. Though even a 500 Interror error is better than Alien vs. Predator. Hiyo!
For your next tidbits, you might mention that actress Natasha Richardson was star of the 1990 film adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, and she also played Mary Shelley once in a movie called Gothic.