SF Tidbits for 3/25/09
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Mark Charan Newton (Nights of Villjamur) talks about the Dying Earth subgenre of science fiction.
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @The Nebula Awards website: John Kessel.
- @tor.com: John Scalzi.
- @Agony Column: Frank M. Robinson.
- @The Hathor Legacy: Pat Cadigan [via Ellen Datlow]
- To paraphrase Johnny from Airplane!: “There’s a sale at Nightshade!” Buy Laird Barron’s Shirley Jackson Award-winning collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories in trade paperback, and pick out any in-print Night Shade Trade Paperback for free! Offer ends Sunday, March 29, 2009.
- Free Fiction, courtesy of QuasarDragon:
- Mary Robinette Kowal has posted and illustrated (!) PDF version and an audio version of her Hugo-nominated story, “Evil Robot Monkey“. The list of 2009 Hugo Awards finalists has been updated with the link.
- @Pyr: “A Book of Silences” by James Enge, a short story featuring Morlock Ambrosius, wandering swordsman and master of all magical makers, who appears soon in the novel Blood of Ambrose.
- “Petrified” by Scott Edelman. [PDF, via Bibliophile Stalker]
- @Kat and Mouse: “Easy Money” – Part Twelve by Abner Senires.
- @Hub: “Hush a Bye” by Beverley Allen.
- @Fantasy Magazine: “Jane” by Nicole Kornher-Stace.
- @Strange Horizons: “The Spider in You” by Sean E. Markey.
- David Brin is guestblogging at Sentient Developments this week. [via Futurismic]
- Would you like to be a character in the next Jennifer Fallon novel?
- At B&N, Paul Di Filippo reviews Liberation by Brain Francis Slattery, Fools’ Experiments by Edward M. Lerner, One Second After by William Forstchen, and Enclave by Kit Reed.
- Elizabeth Moon has a poll about book covers.
- Gwenda Bond pointed me to turned me onto The Magic Distrcit, which offers up these choice posts:
- Diana Rowland on the SF ghetto phenomenon: “Is SF a ghetto where we’re the ones building the walls? Why do we get so damn pissed when someone dares to publish an SF book outside the ghetto, and doesn’t want to be labeled an SF author?”
- Greg van Eekhout’s shameful lie about short fiction. The truth? Short fiction totally helped him sell his first novel.
- Charlie Fletcher’s Stoneheart Trilogy, a young-adult fantasy book series, is headed for the big screen.
- Ellen Datlow and Kathryn Cramer have posted photo galleries from ICFA.
- Women are more avid readers of books than men, says the Telegraph. [via Juno Books]
- Futurismic looks at The modern writer’s dilemma. Is it established wisdom that self-publication is de facto a bad thing?
- Cover art, step-by-step: See
- Greg Manchess painting the cover for Canticle by Ken Scholes.
- Something Awful has an ever-growing gallery of Star Wars as Classic Art. [via Look At This]
- Three Good Lists:
- @Film.com: 7 Sci-Fi Films We’d Like to Resurrect.
- @Film School Rejects: The 7 Must-See Monster and Alien Movies of the 1950s.
- @Flashlight Worthy, Cheryl Morgan lists The Classics of Steampunk.
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