SF Tidbits for 5/13/09
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at
12:05 am
- Interviews & Profiles:
- Marty Halpern serves up Part 2 of his profile of George Alec Effinger, focusing on the collection George Alec Effinger Live! From Planet Earth.
- Mur Lafferty interviews Scott Sigler.
- John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Sarah Prineas, author of The Magic Thief .
- Coming Up: Paul Jessup (Open Your Eyes) will be chatting live over at Apex Books on Monday, May 18th at 9PM ET
- @Suvudu: China Miéville talks about The City & The City.
- Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
- “The Story Of Love” by Vera Nazarian. From her reprinted collection Salt of the Air which sports a new introduction by Gene Wolfe.
- @Strange Horizons: “The Rising Waters” (Part 2 of 2) by Benjamin Crowell.
- @Fantasy Magazine: “Revisionist History” by Alison Campbell-Wise.
- @Kat and Mouse: “Easy Money” Part Nineteen by Abner Senires.
- Graphic Fiction:
- @The Horrors of It All: “The Mummy Master“
- @Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine: “Star Light, Star Bright” and “The Tryst”
- Audio Non-Fiction @LibriVox: “The Philosophy of Composition” by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Leon Mire.
- Free Excerpt: Norse Code by Greg van Eekhout.
- Harlan Ellison’s bits:
- Harlan Ellison recently rejected the Cleveland Arts Prize, a lifetime achievement award from his hometown celebrating his writing career.
- Speaking of whom…regarding piracy, Harlan Ellison will cut off your hand!
- Authors Edward Morris and Leona Wisoker recently signed up with Mercury Retrograde Press.
- The Website at the End of the Universe asks: Would SF get more respect if its book covers were more sedate?
- The next Philip K. Dick adaptation is Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.
- Henry Jenkins lists Five Ways to Start a Conversation About the New Star Trek Film.
- Entertainment Weekly lists 13 Great Pop-Culture Vampires. [via Whedonesque]
- Here’s an NSFW video: Joe Pesci’s Spock screen test.
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- SF Tidbits for 3/29/09
- SF Tidbits for 3/19/09
- SF Tidbits for 2/16/08
- SF Tidbits Part XXXV
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Would SF get more respect if its book covers were more sedate?
You know, for as stupid as it sounds, I’ve often felt that it would. And even though I don’t really care what people think of my reading habits, I have often found a tad conscious of the cover in my hands and have certainly been put off by other covers. It’s a lot like romance covers. there’s just an association that goes with them, whether that’s fair or not.
Harlan Ellison recently rejected the Cleveland Arts Prize, a lifetime achievement award from his hometown celebrating his writing career.
Sometimes Ellison’s curmudgeonness crosses over full borne into being a <<expletive deleted>>. I appreciate his piss and vinegar,l but I think, somewhere along the line, he’s become at least a bit of what he used to hate and rail against.
I thought King of the Elves was going to be the next PKD adaptation (Dec. 2012 scheduled release)?
http://totaldickhead.blogspot.com/2008/04/disney-to-produce-king-of-elves-in-2012.html
Unless Flow My Tears… comes out sooner, I guess…
Paul, I don’t know where I stand on Harlan having to pay his own way to the ceremony, but I agree with you on his attitude in general. I’ve never read him and it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to consider even giving him a shot because I’ve more or less detested him each time I’ve seen him speak. Some say you’ve gotta take most of what he says in a light-hearted way, but he’s just so damn nasty all the time.
Back in December of last year I found what I thought was a legitimate copy of Harlan Ellison’s “Jeffty is Five” on the internet. I wrote a review and linked to the story. A week later the story was taken down. No problem, I found another online copy and link to it instead. A week later it was taken down too, but this time the blogger posted a very interesting story about how Ellison called in the middle of the night and yelled at him!
I agree with the above comments – Harlan Ellison’s attitude has turned me off to his work. There are plenty of other great SF authors out there who’s stories I would rather promote.