Batman is Hard…on His Luck
Will William Shatner be jealous if I tell the world how much I totally love Adam West right now? Batman Garage Sale with Adam West from Adam [...]
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April 2009
‘Vinegar Peace’ by Michael Bishop
The StarShipSofa podcast is honored to present a reading of “Vinegar Peace“…a SF story written by Michael Bishop for his son Jamie Bishop who died two years [...]
WINNER: 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award
Congratulations to Ian R. MacLeod, whoseSong of Time won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. See also: Past Winners. [via Science Fiction Awards [...]
SF Tidbits for 4/30/09
Interviews & Profiles: The latest Odyssey podcast features Allen Steele talking about world building. Mur Lafferty podcast-interviews John Kessel. [via Charles Tan] [...]
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
Where would Fantasy be without gods to bicker, argue, and meddle with the fate of mortals? We asked the following of this week’s panelists, who responded with less [...]
Star Trek Cast Members Talk About Body Parts
In this blatant promo for the Star Trek 1-6 DVD Box Set, several Trek cast members talk about Trek stradom. And body parts. [via SciFi [...]
Book Trailer Theater: Who Goes There?, Beauty and Dynamite
More book trailers for your amusement… Who Goes There? by John W. [...]
WINNERS: Analog’s and Asimov’s Reader Poll Awards
Nebula Awards weekend also saw another set of awards being given away: Analog Science Fiction and Fact‘s AnLab Awards and the Asimov’s Readers’ Awards: Here [...]
FINALISTS: 35th Annual Origins Awards
The finalists for the 35th Annual Origins Awards have been announced, here are the fiction nominees: Hungerblade by Robin D Laws (Red Juggernaut Inc.) Infernal Sorceress by [...]
SF Tidbits for 4/29/09
The Art of Penguin Science Fiction. Interviews & Profiles: At Locus Online, Graham Joyce interview excerpts. [via Charles Tan] At Tor, Lou Anders interviews Matthew [...]
Tube Bits For 04/29/2009
The Star Trek hype train rams the station next week and Vince Horiuchi of The Salt Lake Tribune laments the lack of good movies made from TV shows. While Trek has had a lot [...]
Book Cover Smackdown! Berserker Lord (Chaosbound) vs. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms vs. The Revolution Business
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Tell us which cover you like best and why. Go! Books shown here: Berserker Lord by David Farland (Artist: Kekai Kotaki) The [...]
Deep In The Lab by Walter Bishop
This is why Walter Bishop the most entertaining (in an insane, non sequitur way) character on TV. If you remember the Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy bits on Saturday Night Live, [...]
REVIEW: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
REVIEW SUMMARY: Fun, piecemeal excursions into what it might be like after you die. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Forty thought-experiments about what happens in the afterlife. [...]
Free Fiction for Tuesday 4/28/09
@Manybooks.net: The February 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science. Thoughtcrime Experiments, edited by Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson, a brand new [...]
FINALISTS: 2009 Locus Award
The finalists for the 2009 Locus Award have been announced: SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Matter, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK) [See SF Signal reviews] City at the End of Time, Greg Bear [...]
SF Tidbits for 4/28/09
Interviews & Profiles: @SciFi Scanner: Battle for Terra Director Aristomenis Tsirbas. @Sci-Fi Fan Letter: Robert J. Sawyer. @Bibliophile Stalker: Paul Graham Raven. @SCI [...]
RIP :Tom Deitz
Sad news via SF Site… Author Tom Deitz has passed away. Deitz was the author of the Soulsmith Trilogy (Soulsmith, Dreambuilder, and Wordwright) and also [...]
In His Own Words: Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics
Here’s a pre-muttonchops Isaac Asimov explaining his now-famous Three Laws of [...]
Recent SF Book Recommendations
Memesis Virtualis proprietor Frank Dudley recently asked me to participate in a meme he has going: What are your recent sf/f book recommendations? Check out my response at [...]
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