SF Tidbits for 3/20/09
By John DeNardo |
Friday, March 20th, 2009 at
12:07 am
- Cover Pr0n:
- John Picacio shows off his stunning cover for Mark Chadbourn‘s upcoming book Age of Misrule: The Darkest Hour. [via Pyr-o-mania]
- Amazon has finally posted the cover for The Year’s Best Science Fiction #26 edited by Gardner Dozois. (The Table of Contents post has been updated.)
- Interviews and profiles:
- @SCI FI Wire: Walter Jon Williams (This Is Not a Game). The book also has a website.
- @The Dragon Page: David J. Williams (The Mirrored Heavens and The Burning Skies).
- Free Fiction:
- The Nebula-nominated “Trophy Wives” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman. [The free fiction links on our 2008 Nebula Awards post has been updated.]
- Audio fiction: @EscapePod: “This Is How It Feels” by Ian Creasey.
- @Tor.com: “We Haven’t Got There Yet” by Harry Turtledove.
- Tim Waggoner on The Making of Nekropolis. [via Angry Robot Books]
- Mike Brotherton tells us why the human batteries from The Matrix wouldn’t work.
- Nancy Jane Moore reveals things she didn’t say in this week’s Mind Meld about taboos in genre fiction.
- The topic of spoilers is jointly discussed as Tor and Suvudu.
- Lou Antonelli remembers paperback spin-racks.
- Dark Roasted Blend looks at Body Snatchers and other Alien Pods.
- Dan Abnett signs with Angry Robot to deliver three original novels: a “ribald historical fantasy” titled Triumph and two books set in the same future-war setting. (Embedded sends a journalist into the frontline of a distant planetary war chipped inside the head of a combat veteran.)
- John Scalzi looks at musicians in SciFi Films.
- io9 lists The 10 Greatest Science Fiction TV Show Endings.
- @The Great Geek Manual: Top 10 Signs you’ve Watched too much BattleStar Galactica.
Related posts:
- SF Tidbits for 9/9/06
- SF Tidbits for 5/3/07
- SF Tidbits for 3/4/07
- SF Tidbits for 10/10/06
- SF Tidbits for 10/20/07
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