SF Tidbits for 3/4/09

• Cover Pron: Lou Anders shows off the awesome John Picacio cover for Age of Misrule: World’s End by Mark Chadbourn.
• John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to S. Andrew Swann, author of Prophets.
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Strange Horizons: “Diana Comet,” by Sandra McDonald
  • @Fantasy Magazine: “Chemical Magic” by Katherine Sparrow.
  • Issue #77 of Hub Magazine features “Hidden Underneath” by Malin Larsson.
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @Fear on Demand: “The Red Spectre” by M.F. Korn and David Mathew, read by Glen Hallstrom.
    • @PodCastle: De La Tierra by Emma Bull, read by Bill Ruhsam.
    • @James Patrick Kelly’s Free Reads: “Bernardo’s House“, part 1 read by the author.
  • Free sample: The first chapters Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom by Tim Byrd. [via Chris Roberson]
• The 6th annual storySouth Million Writers Award is now open. Nominate your favorites! The deadline for nominations is March 31, 2009.
• “An independent bookstore requires a community,” says Meghan in her independent bookstore rant, as response to this article about the final chapter of independent bookstores.
• Christine Fall compares The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with Amazon’s Kindle 2.
• Here’s a remake I can get behind: Reanimator: 3D. Calling Fritz Weaver… [via SciFi Scanner]

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