SF Tidbits for 4/19/09
By John DeNardo |
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 at
12:06 am
- Check out this retro-cool Twilight Zone bobblehead nicked from the William Shatner “fortune teller in diner” episode. [via Super Punch]
- Note to Hugo Voters: The Hugo voter packets are ready for download. [via File 770]
- Events:
- As part of the Fantastic Fiction reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Naomi Novik (Victory of Eagle) & F. Brett Cox (whose short fiction has appeared in Postscripts, Interfictions and in the anthology Phantom) Wednesday May 20th, 7pm at KGB Bar in NYC.
- Houston’s ComicPalooza will be on May 2nd and 3rd, 2009.
- This year’s nominees for The 2008 Jerzy Zulawski Award (in Polish) have been announced.
- At SFX, Steven Gaythorpe asks: Where are the funny sci-fi books? A good place to start: our own Mind Meld on The Funniest Writers in the History of SF/F.
- The Starship Sofa spinoff podcast, Sofanauts, has launched their inaugural podcast which features Matthew Sanborn Smith, Jeremy Tolbert, Damien G Walter.
- io9 lists 15 Evil Corporations in Science Fiction.
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That episode of the TZ creeped me out when I first saw it. I believe I was also confused
as to why “Captain Kirk” was in a diner on Earth.