SF Tidbits for 3/22/09
By John DeNardo |
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 at
12:08 am
- 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.
Related posts:
- SF Tidbits for 10/21/07
- SF Tidbits Part XIII
- Galactica In 5 Minutes
- Tonight’s The Night!
- SF Tidbits for 8/17/08
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