SF Tidbits for 4/3/09
By John DeNardo |
Friday, April 3rd, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Interviews & Profiles:
- At Tor.com, John Joseph Adams profiles Alexander Irvine, author of Buyout.
- @The Dragon Page’s Cover to Cover: Jim Butcher (Turn Coat).
- @Neth Space: Alison Goodman (The Two Pearls of Wisdom).
- @Omnivoracious: Michio Kaku (Physics of the Impossible).
- Stainless Steel Droppings literally takes a close-up look at the art of Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia.
- Locus is reporting that Greg Bear will write a new Halo trilogy.
- Suite101 profiles SF Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss.
- Brenda Cooper asks: What’s After Capitalism?
- Angela Slatter has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog. In the meantime, check out her sage advice for:
- Writers: Stray Thoughts on Long Sentences: “…some of my sentences were the literary equivalents of clown cars.”
- Reviewers: On Reviewing: “I scurried to the OED to assure myself that ‘reviewer’ does not come from any French or Latin word remotely connected with the sphincter or lower intestine.”
- Over at SF Scope, Michael A. Burstein reviews Alien Trespass.
- Cover Pr0n: Pyr shows off John Picacio’s way-cool complete wraparound cover for Mark Chadbourn’s Darkest Hour.
- Borders May Close Hundreds of Waldenbooks Stores. [via GalleyCat]
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Hairy Green Eyeball: “The Second Shell” by Jack Williamson (1929).
- @Manybooks:
- “The Helpful Robots” by Robert J. Shea (1957).
- “It’s a Small Solar System” by Allan Howard (1957).
- “I Like Martian Music” by Charles E. Fritch (1957).
- “Flight Through Tomorrow” by Stanton Arthur Coblentz (1947).
- “Stopover” by William Gerken by (1957).
- “Bolden’s Pets” by Floyd L. Wallace by (1955).
- Randy Patterson has started publishing 20 years of his science fiction writings online at The Trinadgey Series website. “Trinadgey takes place in a modern day sci-fi world with intergalactic bad guys, big ships and even bigger guns. Prophecies, love, treachery and the possibility of mankind’s annihilation are just moments from reality.”
- The Eldritch Dark, a Clark Ashton Smith tribute site, offers many of Clark Ashton Smith stories online. [via Matt Staggs's @ Twitter]
- Locus Online has posted the Locus Magazine April 2009 Table of Contents.
- The April ’09 issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction has been posted.
- At SciFi Scanner, Nick Nadel, bless his generous heart, has posted a photo gallery of The Babes of Batman.
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“Brenda Cooper asks: What’s After Capitalism?“
In one word?
Poverty.
The Trinadgey project mentioned above is a scam!!! Mr. Randy Patterson has set up his site claiming that these stories are origional when infact he has ripped the plot lines and modified names to claim they are his. Along with his cry for membership to his site and claiming that the money raised would have a portion donated to cancer research is a fraud. The money he has made so far has not even seen a portion going to research however has been used to his personal use on narcotics and prostitution. Therefore if I could make my word of warning if you subscribe to this site you are becoming a victim of a very elaborate scam so please heed the warning.