SF Tidbits for 3/5/09

• @Joseph Mallozzi’s blog: David Louis Edelman (MultiReal) answers reader questions.
• Free Fiction:
  • The free fiction Diamonds in the Sky website now has downloadable version in several formats.
  • Reminder: Blue Tyson maintains one the biggest lists of free fiction lists I’ve ever seen that’s super easy to use and
  • Free Samples:
    • Chapter 1 of Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie.
    • Chapter 1 of MythOS by Kelly mcCullough.
• At Locus Online: In Praise of the Sales Force by Cory Doctorow: “Publishing is not printing, or marketing, or editorial, or copy-editing, or typesetting. It may comprise some or all of these things, but you could have the world’s best-edited, most beautiful, well-bound book in the world, and without a strategy for getting it into the hands of readers, all it’s good for is insulating the attic.”
• Frank Ludlow writes that the winners of the 2008 Aeon Award have been selected by Grand Judge, author Ian Watson:
  • 1st place: “Twinkle, Twinkle” by Colin Henchley
  • 2nd Place: “Aegis” by David T. Neale
  • 3rd Place: “The Better to See You With” Allison Francisco
• Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett make the list of LA Times Book Prize Nominees.
• The National Black Writers Conference Bi-Annual Symposium will celebrate the life and work of Octavia E. Butler in a daylong symposium to be held on Saturday, March 28, 2009 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Medgar Evers College- in Brooklyn, NY.
• The sale of Solaris books is official.
• John Anealio has another Sci Fi Songs: “The God-Clown is Near“, inspired by Jay Lake’s short story of the same name which appears in Ann and Jeff Vandermeer’s Steampunk anthology .
• At Tor.com, Irene Gallo shares some Turok concept art. Nice.
• Super Punch points ud to Steampunk version of Odysseus and the cyclops by Arthur Mirzoyan.
• Let Em Eat Cake has a cool gallery of Retro Future Space Illustrations.
• Wil McCarthy explains the similarity between Coraline and Hellraiser [via SciFi Scanner].
• SciFi Scanner is asking you to vote for your favorite super villain in their tournament of tyranny.
• Suite101 lists Top 10 Science-Fiction for the Thinking Female Reader.
• Over at SF Gospel, Gabriel McKee lists 4 Alan Moore stories that are better than Watchmen.

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