SF Tidbits for 3/29/09
By John DeNardo |
Sunday, March 29th, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Harlan Ellison’s name popped up twice today: In Andrew Wheeler’s Harlan Ellison’s Introductions post, and in Scott Edelman’s dreams. Talk about Dangerous Visions!
- Free Fiction: The latest issue of The Future Fire features social, political, & speculative cyberfiction from Eric Del Carlo, Nader Elhefnawy, Melanie Rees and Rob Sharp.
- @Bookspot Central: Sarah Zettel’s Love/Hate Relationship with Star Wars: “I went to The Phantom Menace on its opening weekend, ready to fall in love all over again…Then the movie started, and the movie played, and the movie ended, and I walked out and I was angry. Not just a little angry either. I was Harlan-Ellison-with-a-toothache-angry. I was in fact f***ing furious.”
- Charlie Stross and Cory Doctorow are giving a benefit talk entitled “Resisting the All-Seeing Eye” for the Open Rights Group on May 1, 2009, in London. [via Locus Online]
- Writer Lavie Tidhar has started the World SF News Blog, focusing on the international science fiction, fantasy, horror and comics scenes. [via Ellen Datlow]
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I dreamt about Harlan Ellison just a few days ago. I wonder if this is an omen, all these Ellison Dreams?
I dreamt he was over for dinner at my apartment, along with lots of other people, and he eviscerated someone I don’t care much for in my living room, and then we retreated to my library where he complained that no one had great libraries anymore. And I was showing him all this various books and saying “Look! See? It’s a volume of Guy de Maussepant stories, from 1886. That’s good,” and he grudgingly admitted it, after I showed him dozens of books that he approved of.
…AND THEN THE CAGE CAME DOWN AND THE SPIDERS CAME OUT…!
(wait, that may have been a different dream)