SF Tidbits for 4/23/09

• Interviews & Profiles:
  • SF Crowsnest interviews Alastair Reynolds.
  • @The Nebula Awards website: Catherine Asaro.
  • Author Kevin J. Anderson sets his sights on Wonder Woman.
  • The New Yorker has a lengthy essay on Poe: Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror. [via Maud Newton]
  • @Philadelphia Weekly: James Morrow (Shambling Towards Hiroshima).
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Tor.com: “Bugs in the Arroyo” by Steven Gould, illustration by Mark Zug.
  • @Big Pulp:
    • “Holding Fire” by Georgey Fluharty.
    • “Kenna’s Song” by Betsy Dornbusch.
    • “Long Way From Home” by Alice Folkart.
  • @Audio Fiction:
    • @The Classic Tales Podcast: Part One of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe, read by B. J. Harrison.
    • @Cthulhu: “Bellwethers Asteroid” part 2 by William A. La Fleur.
    • @ScottSigler.com: Part 20 of Contagious.
• Free Excerpts:
  • Dead if I Do by Tate Hallaway.
  • World’s End (Age of Misrule 1) by Mark Chadbourn.
  • The Discovery of Socket Greeny by Tony Bertauski
• Nancy Kress notes that SF Is Dead. Again. At least according to Barry Malzberg’s essay in Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 edited by Ellen Datlow.
• New members of George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards writing team: David D. Levine, Cherie Priest, Mary Aanne Mohanraj, David Anthony Durham, Paul Cornell. What a great lineup!
• TTA Press is offering a free issue of Black Static (#10) with a paid subscription.
• Rocket Ride Books starts off the publication of John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There? with a bang: Free MP3 and PDF Samples + $5 Off.
• James Enge on C.M. Kornbluth.
• Blast from the past: Kathryn Cramer shares some Old NYRSF photos.
• John Scalzi makes his Summer Box Office Predictions.
• Neil Gaiman Kills Batman.
• Quiz: Literary apocalypses
• Here’s a nice art gallery featuring the work of John Berkey.
• I present unto thee…The Zombie Bible. [via Colleen Lindsay]

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