• Cover Pron Hat Trick: Over at Tor.com, Lou Anders reveals John Picacio's outstanding cover art for Mark Chadbourn's Age of Misrule trilogy. All I can say is "Wowzers!"


• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @Baltimore Book & Blog Examiner: Catherine Asaro: "I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music. I make up the stories to music, and it inspires new ideas." [via io9] (Catherine also shows her musical side in an interview with SF Site.)
  • @SF Site: Alex Irvine: "...one of the real problems on the horizon for American prisons is the hundreds of thousands of inmates serving long sentences." [via]
  • @ Nossa Morte: Ellen Datlow: "I have mixed feelings about bookstores having a ghetto area for horror. That's not where horror started out and I'd prefer it not be there now."
  • In the latest Sofanauts podcast (#3), host Tony Smith welcomes Jeremiah Tolbert, Gord Sellar, and Ray Sizemore.
  • @Suite101: Author P.J. Haarsma, who learns video game design to make The Rings of Orbis.
  • GalleyCat has video of Ursula K. Le Guin talking a small group of fans about Lavinia.
  • @The Trades: Kevin J. Anderson, author of Enemies & Allies.


• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Golden Age Comics: "Sword of Gimshai" by Joseph W. Musgrave (1954). CBR format.
  • @Fusion Fragment: "For the Love of Ceelie" by Matthew Sanborn Smith
  • @Manybooks:
    • "Beyond the Door" by Philip K. Dick (1954).
    • "Year of the Big Thaw" by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1954).
    • "Belly Laugh" by Gordon Randall Garrett (1953).
    • "Texas Week" by Albert Hernhuter (1954).
    • "Lost in the Future" by John Victor Peterson (1954).
    • "Solar Stiff" by Chas. A. Stopher (1954).
  • Graphic Fiction:
    • @Golden Age Comics: Planet Comics #29 (1944).


• Events:
  • Mark Charan Newton (Nights of Villjamur) will be signing at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in London on Thursday 4th June 6 - 7pm.
  • Stephen Hunt writes in to tell us that the first UK Steampunk Con is set for September 2009.


• David Langford has posted the new Ansible for May 2009.


• Did Robert J. Sawyer's Wake predict the future when it posits a self-aware Internet?


• Tobias Buckell rescues child from zombies...just like Woody Harrelson.


• Fandomania rounds up some Wolverine Fan Art.


• Leonard Nimoy will receive a lifetime achievement award at this year's Saturn Awards.


• Talking Gadget Theater: The Kindle 2 and iPod Shuffle perform a scene from Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan. Somehow this misses the dramtaic delivery of Shatner's "Khaaan!" (Thanks, Tim!)


• Lists:
  • @SFX: The Top 10 Things I Learnt From Going To Sci-Fi Conventions
  • @SciFi Scanner: Mary Robinette Kowal lists The 10 Best Dragon Breeds in Fantasy.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday May 02, 2009 at 12:05 AM
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