SF Tidbits for 4/18/09

• Interviews
  • @Tor.com: Mario Acevedo, author of Jailbait Zombie.
  • @Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys: Robert J. Sawyer, author of WWW:Wake. (See also, Sawyer’s SF Signal interview.)
• Free Fiction @Tor.com: “Bugs in the Arroyo” by Steven Gould.
• Paul Levinson reads from his book The Plot to Save Socrates.
• @The Guardian: The award for best fiction editor goes to … nobody: “Behind every great book is a strong editor, but the role gets too little public credit”
• Ellen Datlow has posted photos from the April KGB reading.
• One for the writers: The Reality of a Times Bestseller by Lynn Viehl. [via Dean Wesley Smith]
• From BoingBoing: John “Game of Life” Conway says that particles have the same kind of free will that people have. I wonder if particles have to listen to their wives when they have a “better” way of driving from Point A to Point B?
• Can computer games be literature? [via Enter the Octopus]
• Lists:
  • @io9: 10 Authors Who Put Sex In Their Science Fiction.
  • @Cracked: L. Ron Hubbard’s 5 Most Impressive Lies (Besides Scientology).
  • @Listverse: The 20 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies of the 90s.
  • @OrionBooks: Jonathan Maberry, author of Patient Zero, lists Top 10 Tips for Surviving a Zombie Attack.
  • @SciFi Scanner: Mary Robinette Kowal lists The 10 Most Epic Fantasy Battles.
  • @SciFi Scanner: 5 Perfect Specimens of Humanity in SciFi Films.
  • @Unreality: A few genre titles make the list of The 10 Most Visually Stunning Movies of the Last 10 Years.
  • @Monster.Movie.TV: 13 upcoming remakes of Hollywood sci-fi classics.

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