SF Tidbits for 5/14/09
By John DeNardo |
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Interviews and Profiles:
- @Omnivoracious: Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Ian R. MacLeod (Song of Time).
- The Nebula Awards website interviews K.D. Wentworth. [via Charles Tan]
- @Fantasy Book Critic: Lou Anders, editorial director of Pyr.
- @Book Spot Central: Claude Lalumière
- @Hardcore Nerdity podcast-interviews Robert J. Sawyer.
- Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Manybooks: “The Defenders” by Philip K. Dick (1953).
- @Hub: “Wink” by Lucy Kemnitzer and “Tastes of the Dark” by Malin Larsson.
- Audio Fiction:
- @Dunesteef: “Revolving Door” by Pete Tzinski.
- @ScottSigler.com: Contagious Episode #23
- @StarShipSofa: “Then, Just a Dream” by Lawrence Santoro and “Titanium Mike Saves the Day” by David D. Levine.
- Graphic Fiction:
- @The Horrors of It All: “Satan’s Stradivari!“
- @Diversions of the Groovy Kind: “A curse of Claws!“
- @Hairy Green Eyeball: three Flash Gordon Stories.
- @Crosseyed Cyclops: four issues of Starstream featuring comic book adaptations of stories by many classic SF writers.
- Tor.com’s Naughty Apocalypse contest may get you free burlesque tickets and post-apocalyptic fiction. “A Testicle for Leibowitz” indeed…
- Neal Asher gives you his advice on how to become a writer: “The difference between someone who can fill in a postcard and someone else who can write a novel is the difference between someone who gets out of breath climbing the stairs and someone who runs a marathon.”
- To keep the pattern going…here’s Angela Slatter on Jeff VanderMeer on Neil Gaiman on George R.R. Martin and the Reader-Writer Contract. (Short version: Readers shouldn’t be so upset that Martin hasn’t finished his next novel yet.)
- Chris Roberson has a story in this month’s issues of House of Mystery #13.
- UK publisher Snowbooks has signed up The Affinity Bridge author George Mann for a further six novels, including: the first two novels in a new series The Ghosts of Manhattan, set in 1930s New York; books four, five and six in the Newbury and Hobbes series, which began with The Affinity Bridge, and the short fiction collection The Huntingdon Legacy. These books will be published in the U.S. by Pyr (Ghosts of Manhattan series) and Tor (Newbury and Hobbes series)
- The upcoming five-part Torchwood: Children of Earth will air on BBC America in July.
- @Salon: Why the original “Star Trek” still matters: “It wasn’t an escape into a mythical realm of impossibly perfect heroes and implacably evil villains, but into a future of global techno-humanist harmony…A future where we would all agree that war and poverty and economic depression were barbaric, and where the girls would all wear miniskirts and nylons.”
- ComicMix has an exhaustive and spoilery list of Star Trek annotations. [via Cynical-C]
- Found through Twitter: TheCrewTV, which describes itself as “a sci-fi comedy web series. The Office meets Star Trek“.
- Mmm…Star Wars AT-AT cake….
- Only in the randomly-generated SciFi icons Showdown poll can you pit Wonder Woman up against the Terminator.
Related posts:
- SF Tidbits Part LVI
- SF Tidbits for 5/9/06
- SF Tidbits for 10/7/06
- SF Tidbits for 1/19/07
- SF Tidbits for 5/8/09
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Cor! Blimey! What magnificant pieces of literary geniuses those fine fellows at Dunesteef Publish! Why, just listening to their amazing work has reduced my male pattern baldness AND helped me win the lottery!* Thanks, SF Signal, for pointing me toward Dunesteef!
*(The facts in this post may not actually be factual)
(In all seriousness, though…Neal Asher’s article about writing that you posted, as well as Jeff VanderMeer’s additional thoughts on Neil Gaiman’s post…both just resonated rather sharply somewhere inside my head. They matched up alarmingly with a thought process I was already having. They both get printed and stuck on the wall, probably. So this is to say, thankyew for pointing me toward ‘em.)