SF Tidbits for 3/6/09

By John DeNardo | Friday, March 6th, 2009 at 12:05 am

SciFi Wire tells us why Dark City‘s Alex Proyas is adapting Robert A Heinlein’s The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.
Sean Wallace has a mock-up cover of Unplugged: The Web’s Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy, 2008 Download edited by Rich Horton.
Arrrr…Neal Asher is talking about Space Pirates, an anthology of 15 swashbuckling tales of pirates…in spaaaaaaace!
Penguin has an interview up with William Gibson (Pattern Recognition).
Ellen Datlow uncovers her 2007 interview with from Dark Horizons (PDF link).
Free fiction: Issue #7 of Flurb has contributions from Madeline Ashby, Charlie Anders, Terry Bisson, Richard Kadrey, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, and more.
Graham Edwards (Dragoncharm) has launched a blog written by the mysterious dragon called Monajjfyllena.
Over at City Journal, Benjamin A. Plotinsky tells us How Science Fiction Found Religion: “In a genre less committed than most to the this-worldly, there will always be messiahs to save the world from evil robots or invading aliens.”
HarperCollins launches recommendation site for book lovers, BookArmy, which is being described as a Last.fm for books
The world’s largest bookseller, Barnes & Noble, has acquired Fictionwise. [via Locus Online]
Attention Game Players! Amazon announced a new program for customers to trade in used video game titles in return for credit at Amazon.com. [via CNet]
The straight-to-DVD Green Lantern: First Flight gets a website.

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