SF Tidbits for 3/26/09

• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @Tor: John Joseph Adams profiles C.S. Friedman’s Wings of Wrath.
  • Glen Hiemstra video-interviews Brenda Cooper (Reading the Wind).
  • @Omnivoracious: Ellen Datlow and Laird Barron on Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe.
  • @Subterranean Press: John Joseph Adams interviews Terry Pratchett.
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • Issue No. 4 of Science Fiction Trails – “where science fiction meets the Wild West head on” – features original fiction by John M. Whalen, Lou Antonelli, Norman Riger, Trent Roman, S.A. Bolich, Sam Kepfield, David M. Fitzpatrick, Laura Givens and others. I love the tag line: “These ain’t your pappy’s western stories…” [via Lou Antonelli]
  • “The Sound of His Horn” by Sarban (a.k.a. John William Wall). [Thanks, Fred K.]
  • Charles Coleman Finlay’s free online fiction, listed by the author.
  • Audio fiction @Podcastle: “The Annals of Eelin-Ok” by Jeffrey Ford, read by Rajan Khanna.
• Free sample via Eos: Read the first 20% of Katherine Allred’s Close Encounters online.
• Farah Mendlesohn has posted the introduction from Rhetorics of Fantasy: “In this book I argue that there are essentially four categories within the fantastic: the portal-quest, the immersive, the intrusive, and the liminal…”
• John Scalzi knows What the Recession Means for SciFi Movies.
• Cracked lists 7 Awesome Super Powers Ruined by Science.
• The Age Blogs has The Definitive List of Sci-Fi Cliches, not to be confused with Speculative fiction TV Tropes.
• And finally…Jay Garmon of Geekend has listed me as one of 50 ubergeeks worth following on Twitter, which puts me on the same list as Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, John Cleese, Kevin Smith, and Penn Jillette. How cool is that? Meanwhile, SciFi Wire lists an abbreviated (sans me) version: 18 Sci-Fi Twitter Feeds You Should Be Following

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