SF Tidbits for 5/21/09
By John DeNardo |
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 at
12:05 am
- Hal Duncan asks: What is Literary Fiction? “All fictions are of-a-genre but only those of certain genres are segregated out as being ‘genre’.” Yes…I’ve said that many times…
- SciFi Love shares Part 2 of an interview with Duncan Jones, director of Moon. (Does anyone know if dad David Bowie is doing any music for the film?)
- Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Conjunctions: “Predecessor” by Jeff VanderMeer.
- @Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show: “The Tale of Junko and Sayuri” by Peter Beagle – but only free for the duration of the public vote for the Million Writers Award. [via Jason Sanford]
- @Manybooks: “The Copper-Clad World” by Harl Vincent (1931).
- Audio Fiction:@StarShipSofa: “Culture Archivist” by Jeremiah Tolbert.
- Art:
- @Golden Age Comic Book Stories: a gallery of Roy G. Krenkel illustrations from The Cave Girl by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
- What’s futuristic and drizzled in awesome? Björn Hurri’s entries to the Dominance War 4 competition.
- Video: @The Internet Archive: Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1939).
- EVENT: As part of the Fantastic Fiction reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Brian Francis Slattery (Spaceman Blues: A Love Song and Liberation) & Mary Robinette Kowal (Shades of Milk and Honey, Campbell Award winner for Best New Writer, Hugo nominee) on Wednesday June 17th, 7pm at KGB Bar in NYC.
- At A Distant Soil, guest-blogger Sarah Beach has an interesting analysis of Why Kirk is Mythic and Picard is Not.
- Lists:
- @SciFi Watch: 5 Ways Publishers Can Increase Sales, Save Money, and Promote Publicity, Part II. Someone likes our big-@$$ icons. (Part I here.)
- Fandomania lists The Top 10 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Friendships.
- AbeBooks lists 9 Books to Help You Learn Klingon.
- io9 lists 10 Most Murderous Robots (and also tells us How to Turn a Robot Evil, In 9 Easy Steps.
- @RadarOnline: The 20 Greatest Lines Ever Said By Comic Book Characters. (“Discussion is for bio-organisms.” — Deathlok)
- VideoHound lists 7 Things We Want From Star Trek 2. How about a Yeoman Rand? I’m just sayin’…
- Create your own Wall*E computer case mode in 100 easy steps. (Easy if you like working with metal. And who doesn’t?)
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RadarOnline’s “20 Greatest Lines . . . “ fails because it does not include “I’m the best there is at what I do . . .”