SF Tidbits for 5/27/09

• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @Scavenging: Rudy Rucker (Hylozoic).
  • @SF Novelists: Kelly McCullough, MythOS.
  • @Cult Pop: Cherie Priest (Fathom).
  • @The Nebula Awards: Vera Nazarian (The Duke in His Castle).
  • @Whatever: China Miéville (The City & The City ).
• Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Manybooks: “This is Klon Calling” by Walter J. Sheldon (1953).
  • @Strange Horizons: “If Wishes Were Horses” by Tiffani Angus-Bodie.
  • The latest issue of Allegory “Tri-Annual Online Magazine of SF, Fantasy & Horror” is out with fiction by J.C. Tabler, Michael Andreoni, Jennifer Linnaea, Adam Armstrong, Martin Turton, RJ Astruc, Philip Roberts, AJ Brown, and Ty Drago.
  • Video:
    • @The Internet Archive: The pilot episode of Men in Space “Moon Probe” (1959).
  • Graphic Fiction:
    • @The Bronze Age of Blogs: “Kittens for Christian” (1972).
    • @The Horrors of It All: “Beast of the Bayous” (1954).
• Art:
  • Cool art at Gorilla Artfare: a series of illustrations from Patri Balanovsky. That first one looks like one of the X-Men with middle age spread.
  • This tutorial on How to Create a Steampunk Style Illustration in Photoshop is cool even you don’t know how to use Photoshop.
• Joseph Mallozzi reviews The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll.
• Jo Walton reviews Dread Empire’s Fall by Jon Williams.
• Jo Walton also asks Is the right book winning the Hugo?
• Sajbrfem (of Fifty Two Acts fame) is starting a Women in Science Fiction reading club. First book: The Female Man by Joanna Russ.
• Old school newsstand magazines are reinventing themselves and giving readers a reason to buy and keep rather than forcing them to buy and then discard.
• Over at Fantasy Book Critic, David Craddock has posted Part I of a new series: Sharing a World. [via Grasping for the Wind]
• The latest film to be sucked into the Hollywood Remake Machine: Flight of the Navigator.
• Wired looks at the coming plethora of genre films from Guillermo del Toro.
• @SCI FI Wire: Scientist Wil McCarthy shows how Star Trek‘s planets explode.
• Lists:
  • @Sci-Fi Fan Letter: Epic Fantasy to Watch Out For.
  • @io9: 10 Scariest Eco-Catastrophes from Early Science Fiction.
  • @Wired: 10 Strange Species Discovered Last Year.
  • @Topless Robot: 5 Things Comic Book Movies Need to Stop Doing.

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3. SF Tidbits Part XLI
4. SF Tidbits for 5/27/06
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