SF Tidbits for 5/24/09

• Cover Pr0n Redux: It wasn’t enough that I was salivating over the U.S cover and the U.K. cover of Scott Westerfeld’s upcoming steampunk adventure, Leviathan. Now there is a new U.S. cover, and it is also awesome.
• Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @The Online Pulps Site: “The Last Monster” by Gardner Fox (1945).
  • @Book View Cafe:
    • “One of Us” by Alma Alexander.
    • “White Fire” by Sylvia Kelso.
  • @Manybooks:
    • “Collector’s Item” by Robert F. Young.
    • “One Out of Ten” by J. Anthony Ferlaine.
  • @Audio Fiction:
    • @Maria Lectrix: Parts Three and Four (the conclusion) of “Spawn of the Stars” by Charles Willard Diffin, read by Maureen O’Brien.
    • @Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “The Sacrifice Pit” by Brian Dolton.
• Beam Me Up wrestles with the elusive definition of science fiction. (Se also: our two part Mind Meld on that very definition.
• io9 has some video of Russell T. Davies talking about Why Doctor Who Couldn’t Fail.
• The Crotchety Old Fan is retro-interview scan happy, sharing this 2002 scanned interview with William Shatner.
• I totally missed Laughing Squid’s exhaustive Star Trek observations.
• Jeff Patterson’s rant against action figures seems to have had no effect. At least, if these Blammoid superhero collectibles are any indication. [via Gravity Lens]
• Two words: Steampunk Fashion. [via it's all one thing]

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