SF Tidbits for 5/1/09
By John DeNardo |
Friday, May 1st, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Our best wishes go out to Author/Editor Eric Flint who needs to undergo bypass surgery.
- Interviews & Profiles:
- Jo Walton talks with Sherwood Smith (Once a Princess).
- Yog-Sothoth.com podcast-interviews Charles Stross. [via SFFaudio]
- @The Dragon Page, Cover to Cover: Gail Z. Martin.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
- The latest issue of Abyss & Apex is online with fiction by Lisa A. Koosis, Bud Sparhawk, Aliette de Bodard, Ruth Nestvold, and William Highsmith.
- The latest issue of Ideomancer is online with fiction by J(ae)D Brames, Michaela Kahn, Steven Mohan, Jr., J. C. Runolfson, Mike Allen, Amal El-Mohtar.
- @Audio Fiction:
- @LibriVox: The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison, read by Jason Mills.
- @Escape Pod: From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled…” By Michael Swanwick Read by Sarah Tolbert.
- James Patrick Kelly reads part 2 of his story “Going Deep“.
- Wil McCarthy deciphers the cyberpunk science of Sleep Dealer.
- The Biology of B-Movie Monsters: “Kong may be pushing the limits of his bone strength, but other movies have clearly crossed the line.”
- One for the wannabe-writers: Getting Started Writing Science Fiction by Jeremiah Tolbert: “Read and absorb everything. Because once you become a writer, your brain becomes a black hole with a voracious appetite for ideas and information.” [via Enter the Octopus]
- Obscure X-men or ’80s hair metal bands? Take the quiz!
- File under Awesome: Bruce Campbell is Hungry Like the Wolf.
- Lists:
- @Hero Complex: Seven things to love about the new Star Trek.
- @Not a Planet Anymore: Top 5 worst moments from the Star Trek films.
- Rotten Tomatoes lists Marvel Comics Movies, From Worst To Best. Elektra worse than Howard The Duck? Yikes!
- @SpoutBlog: 10 Mutants Who Need an X-Men Origins Movie. If ever I saw a list that should contain Carrot Top…
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The Biology of B-Movie Monsters is fascinating and reminds me of something that Gene Wolfe talked about in an interview (which I can’t find right now, I’m afraid), in which he pointed out that actually, a creature like King Kong — or the 50-Foot Woman — would just sink into the ground because of the sheer size and weight being set up on relatively small points.
It’s a fascinating point. Well, to me.
Thanks for the link, John!