SF Tidbits for 4/29/09

• The Art of Penguin Science Fiction.
• Interviews & Profiles:
  • At Locus Online, Graham Joyce interview excerpts. [via Charles Tan]
  • At Tor, Lou Anders interviews Matthew Sturges, author of Midwinter.
  • Lou Anders, meanwhile, dishes on his picks for a SF/F Reading List for the 2000s.
  • @h+ Magazine: Singularity 101 with Vernor Vinge [via Futurismic]
  • @January Magazine: Margaret Atwood
  • @B&N: Jim Butcher talks with about the latest installment in his fantastical Dresden Files series.
  • @The Nebula Awards: Nina Kiriki Hoffman. [via Bibliophile Stalker]
  • @RobertHood: Kaaron Warren (Slights)
• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Tor.com: “TVA Baby” by Terry Bisson.
  • @Manybooks: “Devil Crystals of Arret” by Hal K. Wells (1931).
  • @Kat and Mouse: Part Seventeen of “Easy Money” by Abner Senires.
  • Chapters One and Two of The Time Idiot by A. R. Yngve are now online
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @PodCastle: “Komodo” by Tim Pratt read by Cat Rambo.
    • @Escape Pod: “Semi-Autonamous or ‘For Whom The Warranty Tolls’” by Jim Kling, read by Rachel Swirsky.
    • @Cthulhu: “The Festival” by H. P. Lovecraft, read by Kirk Warrington.
    • Episode 21 of Contagious by Scott Sigler is now available.
    • @LibriVox:
      • The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, read by Nicodemus and Madera.
      • The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. Ingram, read by Roger Melin.
• Hal Duncan On Prologues.[via Bibliophile Stalker]
• Jeff VanderMeer on Spectacular Characters in Flawed Novels.
• At B&N Review, Paul DiFilippo looks at a batch of new comics: Freakangels, Volume 1 by Warren Ellis, Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan, and more.
• Bioware has since apologized for saying that homosexuality does not exist in the Star Wars universe. Maybe the proof was in these Star Wars promo pics?
• Small Beer Press is having a $1 Warehouse Clearance Sale.
• PS Publishing’s Recent acquisitions include fiction by Carol Emshwiller, Christopher Golden, Lavie Tidhar, Catherynne M. Valente, Terry Dowling, Chris Beckett, Robert Reed, Matt Hughes, Mike Resnick, and more.
• A short tine ago, on a blog far away, Heather Massey launched a nice Star Wars Romance Retrospective, with Part I: Han & Leia. And then she wrote a piece on The Rise of the Subversive Heroines. Busy one, that Heather…
• Tim Mcburnie shares some of the nice looking artwork for a fantasy comic.
• John Picacio loves San Antonio.
• Matt Staggs tells us you can test drive Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition for free!
• Web Comic Wondermark takes on reading.
• Real Science:
  • “Astronomers have discovered an unexpected cache of spiral galaxies that appear to have formed recently, long after the period early in the history of the universe that most galaxies were thought to have been created.”
  • How do you make antimatter?
• Lists:
  • @io9: The Top 10 Greatest Mentally Ill Superheroes. Is that Cocoa Puffs bird a superhero? Because he would totally be on that list.
  • Discover Magazine lists 5 Summer Cinema Sci-Fi Future Favorites. No, Hannah Montana is not on this list.
  • @SciFi Scanner: 5 Fun Facts About Wolverine You Won’t Learn From His Movie.
  • @FirstShowing.net, J.J. Abrams Lists His 5 Favorite Films for Rotten Tomatoes. They’re all his. I kid! Or, do I…?

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