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SF Tidbits for 5/16/09
- Creative Review looks at minimalist science fiction cover art.
- Magical Words interviews Diana Pharaoh Francis, author of The Turning Tide.
- Jeffrey Somers offers free writing advice.
- Meanwhile, this is how Marie Brennan writes female characters.
- Tor.com goodies
- Lou Anders reviews The Insidious of Dr. Fu Manchu.
- Jo Walton asks: Where do you find out about new books?
- Peggy at Biology in Science Fiction talks about Technology on Star Trek: "Trek is about gadgets and engineering, not science."
- EVENT: Troll's Eye View (New York, Sunday June 07, 1pm - 3pm) with Ellen Datlow, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Holly Black, and Catherynne M. Valente.
- Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
- @Dragon Moon Press: Nina Kimberly the Merciless by Christiana Ellis [via Grasping for the Wind].
- @Manybooks: The Electronic Mind Reader by John Blaine (1957).
- Audio Fiction:
- @Pseudopod: "Camp" by Jeremy C. Shipp, read by George Hrab.
- @LibriVox: Varney, the Vampyre: Feast of Blood Vol. 2 by Thomas Preskett Prest, read by many readers.
- Graphic Fiction:
- @The Fabuleous Fifties: A Tom Corbett, Space Cadet story "The Drifter!"
- @Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: four horror stories featuring artwork by Rudy Palais.
- @Golden Age Comic Book Stories: A cool collection of Shining Knight stories drawn by Frank Frazetta.
- Book View Café presents Ursula K. Le Guin's "Cat T'ai Chi". In addition for the next three months, one of BVC's Thursday Specials will be Le Guin's comics, including "Pilllow Book for Cats" and "Supermouse." These one-of-a-kind comics, exclusive to Book View Café, represent some of the more unusual offerings at the website which also has an early screenplay from Le Guin, "King Dog."
- /Film get the Trel LOL-of-the-week with this awesome Star Trek Movie Quick Recognition Chart.
- Check out this cool Coraline paper toy [via Super Punch]
- Lists:
- LittleFivers lists The Top 5 Ways Classic Pieces of Literature Would Be Different If Written by Robert Heinlein.
- io9 lists 10 Greatest Libertarian Science Fiction Stories. (Related article: Science Fiction and Libertarianism by Joe Schembrie.)
- Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver and Drood by Dan Simmons make Stephen King's list 7 Great Books for Summer. [via Omnivoracious]
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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday May 16, 2009 at 12:08 AM
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