SF Tidbits for 5/5/09

• SF Signal sends get well wishes to John C. Wright.
• Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Strange Horizons: “The Rising Waters” by Benjamin Crowell
  • @Fantasy Magazine: “Voice Like A Cello” by Catherine Cheek.
  • Audio Fiction @LibriVox:
    • Gulliver of Mars by Edwin L. Arnold, read by James Christopher. 6 1/4 hours.
    • Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 015 with stories by John O’Keefe, Philip K. Dick, H. G. Wells, H. B. Carelton, Mack Reynolds, Paul Ernst, D. W. Hall, C. C. Beck, and Randall Garrett.
  • Graphic Fiction:
    • @The Horrors of It All: “The Thing With the Golden Hair!“
    • @Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine: “Captain Rocket: The Graveyard of the Rocketeers“
• @io9: China Miéville.
• The Shirley Jackson Awards Blog interviews Jeff Vandermeer. [via Charles Tan]
• Edward Willett is giving away free copies of Marseguro and Terra Insegura.
• @Apex Books: Lavie Tidhar talks about editing in Anthologies Like Predators, Closing In: “Editing an anthology is closer to being a cattle rustler in the old Wild West, only writers are a lot worse than cattle, and publishers are far more dastardly than any old-time outlaw.”
• Dark Horse Launches Mobile Comics Program with Terminator.
• One for the writers: Scott Parker wrestles with world building.
• A short piece in the WSJ looks at the use of reviewers going on beyond the simple opinion that a book is bad. [via Bookninja]
• The ireaderreview site sheds light on Cost of Physical Book Publishing
• “[waves hand] These are not the hobbits you are looking for…”Darth Vader battles Gandalf in new series from Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia
• Today’s moment of zen: Rainn “Dwight” Wilson as Jean-Luc Picard.
• Gasp! Someone doesn’t like the Star Trek universe, but like the Star Wars universe! “Star Trek routinely asks us to try to understand the technology. Star Wars doesn’t.”
• Real Science:
  • What is A Supernova?
  • @New Scientist: How to map the multiverse.
• Lists:
  • @The Sci Guy: 30 Things You Didn’t Know About Battlestar Galactica.
  • @SciFi Love: Top Five science fiction spaceships. Good choices , but with only 5, it’s hard to miss.
  • @Topless Robot: The 9 Least Necessary Female Versions of Male Superheroes (and Villains). (#9: About 85% of the Spider-Women)

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