SF Tidbits for 5/15/09

• Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Baen’s Webscription: “The Menace from Earth” by Robert Heinlein. [via BestScienceFiction.com]
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @PodCastle: “The Nalendar” by Ann Leckie, read by M. K. Hobson.
    • @Escape Pod: “Elvis in the Attic” by Catherine M. Morrison, read by Ben Phillips.
    • @Well Told Tales: “Anniversary” by Hilary Davidson, read by J.B. Goodspeed.
  • Graphic Fiction:
    • @The Horrors of It All: “Journey to Chaos.“
    • @The Bronze Age of Blogs: “A Beast Within.“
    • @Diversions of the Groovy Kind: “The Dead Will Live Again.“
    • @Fight Evil With Evil: Manmachine a free online science fiction graphic novel.
• The Believer interviews John Crowley. [via Locus Online]
• Gail Z. Martin podcast-interviews Kevin J. Anderson.
• John Scalzi looks at Future Trek-nology He Can Live Without.
• Charles Stross on the future of gaming. [via Futurismic]
• Author Ben Jaepes is against prologues.
• Ladies and gentlemen…The William Gibson Aviator Briefcase. [Thank, Fred!]
• Joseph Mallozzi’s book of the month club will be reading Elric: The Stealer of Souls by Michael Moorcock and Blood of Ambrose by James Enge.
• Michael Cassutt explains why Batman Begins worked–and Wolverine didn’t.
• AMC’s latest gallery asks: What Warped These Star Trek Villains?
• Comedy Central has posted Outtakes from Krod Mandoon.
• Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus gets a fan support site.
• The web series Zerk’s Log has posted their season finale.
• John Anealio’s latest SciFi Song is “Sundog” and was inspired by Bruce Sterling’s Schismatrix.
• Lunar Leftovers tells us How the Moon Became a Trash Can: “The moon has only been accessible for decades, rather than hundreds of years. However, in the short time available to humanity it is estimated that we have left over one hundred and seventy thousand kilos of debris on the surface of our once pristine satellite. Here are some of the more notable pieces of trash on the moon…” [via Cynical-C Blog]
• The Daily Galaxy asks: Will Humans’ Brains Change During Travel in Outer Space? [via MonkeyFilter]
• Lists:
  • @Discover Magazine: Rules for Time Travelers.
  • @Timeout London: 50 essential sci-fi films, but intentionally exclude Dystopian films like Blade Runner, Fahrenheit 451 and Hardware. [via M. John Harrison]
  • @The Crotchety Old Fan: The 18 Star Trek (TOS) Episodes Written by Science Fiction Authors. Extra Credit: Which of those authors also write episodes of Land of the Lost?

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