SF Tidbits for 5/30/09

• PS Publishing is offering a FREE EXCERPT of their Tim Powers biography, Secret Histories.
• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews: Artist Nicolas “Sparth” Bouvier.
  • Tor has Part 3 of a conversation with Robert Charles Wilson.
  • The Sofanauts No 7 features Jeremy Tolbert, John Joesph Adams, and Charles A Tan.
  • Missions Unknown has a fantastic interview with the inimitable Scott A. Cupp. If this is the kind of stuff we can expect from this new blog then, folks, we have a serious contender.
• Take a sneak peek at Cory Doctorow & Charlie Stross talking about privacy
• J.M. McDermott tells us that Apex Publications will be publish an eBook version of Last Dragon, his first novel that made it to the Amazon Editors’ Top Ten Science Fiction/Fantasy Picks of 2008.
• Mary Robinette Kowal offers Tips on How to be a Hero.
• Dark Horse has added 4 Kull wallpapers to their page o’ wallpapers. Also cool: Star Wars: Legacy, Star Wars (Generic), Robots & Donuts, Doctor Grordbort, Penny Arcade, and The Goon
• The Crotchety Old Fan longs for the return of science fiction pulps.
• Attention small presses! The World in the Satin Bag is offering free advertising for you.
• CNN knows Why our ‘amazing’ science fiction future fizzled.
• Super Punch has a Big gallery of Up concept art.
• Lists:
  • @Cracked.com: 6 Sci-Fi Movie Conventions (That Need to Die) (#6. The Ship is an OSHA Nightmare)
  • Neatorama points us to a list of 20 Brilliant Bookcases.
  • @International Society of Supervillains: The 14 Most Abominable Superhero Creations of the 1990s, Part 1.
  • Neatorama points us to 15 Most Alien Looking Caterpillars on Earth.
  • @Wired: Ian R. MacLeod’s Eight Problems in Writing Fiction About the Future.

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1. SF Tidbits for 3/15/09
2. SF Tidbits for 4/10/08
3. SF Tidbits Part LX
4. SF Tidbits for 4/30/08
5. SF Tidbits for 11/4/08

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