SF Tidbits for 4/14/09

• At Tor.com, John Joseph profiles Close Encounters by Katherine Allred.
• The Daily Page has a conversation with physicist Michio Kaku, author of Physics of the Impossible.
• In his latest Light On Light Through podcast, author Paul Levinson looks at the “love/hate mutually catalytic relationship” of authors and critics.
• S.M. Duke at The World in the Satin Bag wants your suggestion for Science Fiction Books For Non-Readers.
• Art Links:
  • Cover Pron: Glen Orbik’s cover for The Evil in Pemberley House by Philip Jose Farmer and Win Scott Eckert.
  • Tor.com gives us a few jaw-dropping examples of concept art by Justin Yun.
  • Over at Gorilla Artfare, Aviv Or shares his take on Leeloo from The Fifth Element.
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Subterranean Online:
    • “Under the Honey” by Liz Williams.
    • “A Tulip for Lucretius” by Ken MacLeod.
  • @Strange Horizons: “The Man Who Lost the Sea” by Theodore Sturgeon. (1959)
  • @Fantasy Magazine: “Shades of White and Road” by Camille Alexa.
  • @Kat and Mouse: “Easy Money – Part Fifteen” by Abner Senires.
  • @Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
    • “Driftwood” Marie Brennan.
    • “Stormchaser, Stormshaper” Erin Hoffman
  • @Manybooks:
    • “Beyond Lies the Wub” by Philip K. Dick. (1952)
    • Beautiful Red by M. Darusha Wehm (2007).
    • “Rex Ex Machina” by Frederic Max. (1954)
    • “Song in a Minor Key” by Catherine Lucile Moore. (1957)
    • “Farewell to the Master” by Harry Bates. (1940)
    • “The Body-Snatcher” by Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • Audio Fiction @ Fantasy Magazine: “Shades of White and Road” by Camille Alexa, read by Mark Bukovec.
• The Cinematics from The Force Unleashed look nice. Anyone play this?
• Concatenation‘s summer posting is up.
• PhD Comic: If TV Science was more like REAL Science. [via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories]
• EVENT: Richard Lupoff and Peter S. Beagle headline the next SF in SF on April 18th.
• GOOD CAUSE: Portions of the sale of Steve N. Lee’s book What If… will be donated to the Save the Children charity.
• Lists:
  • Star Wars and Metropolis make TCM’s Most Influential Classic Movies. [via Rope of Silicon]
  • Felix Gilman lists 7 Reasons Why You Should Read Gears of the City.
  • BooksFairy lists The Best Places to Download Free Science Fiction Books.

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