SF Tidbits for 4/12/09
By John DeNardo |
Sunday, April 12th, 2009 at
12:05 am
- At More Red Ink: Marty Halpern posts the fascinating first part of a 3-part profile on one of my favorite sf writers: George Alec Effinger (When Gravity Fails, A Thousand Deaths, Budayeen Nights): “George is (was) one of the most underrated and underappreciated authors within the science fiction and fantasy genre…”
- SFFaudio shares a video interview with Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.
- CLASSIC FREE FICTION @FeedBooks: “Beyond Lies the Wub” by Philip K. Dick (1952).
- One for the writers: Kelly McCullough on the writing process: From Conception to Completion.
- Futurismic points our book-hungry eyes towards isbndb.com, a free ISBN database.
- Over at SFX, Will Salmon looks at swearing in sf.
- Ben Bova: Science is so important to us, yet so unappreciated
- Amazon is developing a bigger-screen Kindle.
- Zombies Are the New Vampires, says Time magazine.
- Even so, that doesn’t keep Woody Harrelson from getting sued for trying to kill a zombie in a New York airport. Really.
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So that’ll be the THIRD Amazon Kindle in, what, about two years? Wow.
If Amazon keeps this up – redesigning and reinventing the Kindle – why would anyone buy one? If you buy one NOW, it’ll be obsolete and less useful/fun/interesting than the ones they come out with Tomorrow – and if you buy one Tomorrow, it won’t be as cool as the one they come up with next week.
And yet paper books haven’t changed format in . . . how many years?