SF Tidbits for 4/25/09

• Interviews & Profiles:
  • Audio interview: From BBC Radio, China Miéville interviews Ursula K. LeGuin about her life and work. [via BookViewCafe]
  • Gaming site Grinding to Valhalla interviews Tom Lloyd (The Grave Thief).
  • Audible.com and SciFiDimensions interview Robert J. Sawyer (Wake).
  • Podcast: The Sofanauts #2 features Jeremiah Tolbert, Pablo Defendini, and Paul Graham Raven.
  • Reading and Writing Podcast interviews Taylor Anderson Destroyermen.
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Manybooks: “The Octopus Cycle” by Fletcher Pratt and Irvin Lester. (1928)
  • @Aberrant Dreams:
    • “Children of the Fire” by Melissa Mead.
    • “Dione” by Jess Kaan.
    • “Gilding the Dandelion” – By Marissa K. Lingen.
  • Audio Fiction @LibriVox:
    • Rebels of the Red Planet by Charles L. Fontenay, read by Mark Nelson.
    • A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future by John Jacob Astor IV, read by Tom Weiss.
  • Video:
    • @The Internet Archive: Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)..
• Mary Robinette Kowal takes a tour of the environmental woes that plague our fantasy heroes.
• L.E. Modesitt, Jr. talks about The Impact of Technology on Reader Civility: “What concerns me is not that readers don’t enjoy certain books by certain authors, but the anger expressed when an author fails to meet a reader’s expectations, especially when it’s clear that most readers do in fact like, or don’t actively dislike, the book in question.”
• One for the writers: Jim C. Hines describes The Writer as Martial Artist.
• Michael Quinion looks at the linguistic difficulties facing science fiction authors who choose to write a first-contact story.
• Michael A. Burstein is looking for suggestions for the worst science fiction television season finale ever.
• Author Jeff Carlson tells us that his first two novels, Plague Year and Plague War, are now selling in the Czech Republic. Also, his third novel, Plague Zone, is slated for publication in North America by Ace/Penguin Books in Fall 2009
• Skiffy rounds up some Dune character portraits.
• Andrew Wheeler noticed that the SFBC website got a face lift.
• Science Fiction Awards Watch is covering Nebula Weekend.
• Nuketown asks: Is this the Golden Age of Scifi RPGs?
• There’s a Half Price Sale at Apex Books.
• The Summer edition of Concatenation is up.
• Marty Halpern is Rightly Reconsidering Book Reviews.
• The Geek6 list their Favorite SciFi Characters.

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3. SF Tidbits for 8/16/07
4. SF Tidbits for 6/6/08
5. SF Tidbits for 5/7/07

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