SF Tidbits for 3/24/09

• Interviews and Profiles:
  • @Bibliophile Stalker: Gary Turner of Golden Gryphon Press (who produces wonderful hardbacks, I might add.)
  • Mary Robinette Kowal Interviews the Campbell Nominees. First up: David Anthony Durham.
  • Robert J. Sawyer is featured in two SciFi Wire articles on the adaptation Flash Forward.
  • @NextRead: Kate Griffin (A Madness of Angels).
  • @Agony Column Podcast: Christopher Moore (Fool: A Novel).
  • @Ghost in the Machine, Gail Martin podcast interviews Jonathan Maberry and Christina Barber.
  • Over at Rockblog, Cat Rambo, Tobias S. Buckell, Jim C. Hines, and Merrie Haskell about world-building in short stories.
• AbeBooks has a great survey of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction.
• SF Scope reports that, in addition to the previously announced The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes anthology, Editor John Joseph Adams is also working on the sequel zombie anthology, The Living Dead 2. [See SF Signal review for The Living Dead.]
• Over at Tor.com, Art Director Irene Gallo has posted Justin Gerard‘s stunning artwork titled “Battle of Five Armies“.
• Two for the writers:
  • David Coe tells you why you should divide your book into chapters.
  • Mur Lafferty looks at book trailers.
• @Strange Horizons, Matt Cheney looks at the often-overlooked connections between Philip K. Dick and Jack Spicer.
• Science Fiction: A Genre with No Limits: “Science fiction always finds a way to justify the storyline or interactions between characters in a scientific way that makes the story plausible. On the other hand, fantasy media portrays impossible situations with no set explanation.”
• AMC uncovers Jack Kirby’s “Lost” Comic Book Version of The Prisoner. Cool.
• AMC also unveils a new blog: B-Movie Classics, which works exactly as advertised, even including a sub-section on SciFi B-Movies. [via BBT Magazine]
• The Timeline of Cool:
  • Yesterday’s cool: Steampunk gas mask.
  • Today’s cool: Martin Ansin’s Metropolis Poster
  • Tomorrow’s cool: Cyborg Pirate Lego Minifig. (Is there any way to put those words togther and not be cool?
• Lists:
  • This was quick…here’s a list of Battlestar Galactica Finale Goofs. [Thanks, Pawel D.!]
  • SFX lists Top five science errors in sci-fi.
  • A Strange Eye lists The 5 Worst Science Fiction Movies of All Time, using IMDB ratings…which is so unfair to the genius that is Battlefield Earth.

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