SF Tidbits for 5/8/09
By John DeNardo |
Friday, May 8th, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Mur Lafferty podcast-interviews China Miéville (The City & The City ).
- The May 2009 issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction has been posted, including interviews with Steve and Melanie Tam and Jay Lake
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @The Misadventures of Captain Blog: “Batman” by Lew Merrill (1936).
- David R. O’Keeffe is serializing his science fiction novel A Pittsburgh Storm online
- @Manybooks:
- “The Crystal Crypt” by Philip K. Dick (1954).
- “The God in the Box” by Sewell Peaslee Wright (1931).
- @Subterranean:
- “Conquistador de la Noche” by Carrie Vaughn.
- “Crimes and Glory” by Paul McAuley
- Audio Fiction:
- @Escape Pod: “N-words” by Ted Kosmatka, read by Kim The Comic Book Goddess.
- @SteamPod: “The Virginal Seas of the Moon” by Mrs. Melinda Selmys, read by Paul Campbell.
- @Free Reads: Part three of “Going Deep” written and read by James Patrick Kelly.
- Video @The Internet Archive: Fangs of the Living Dead (1969)
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch offer up The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: When To Give Up Your Day Job.
- The official website for Robert J. Sawyer’s WWW trilogy, which begins with Wake, is now live.
- io9 asks: What’s The Difference Between Space Opera and Military SF? “Both military science fiction and space opera are about culture, but it is the methods in which they both approach their stories that helps to set them apart.”
- EVENT: Star Trek Smackdown, Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:30 to 8:00 pm, includes panelists John Joseph Adams, Matt Mitovich, Bones Rodriguez.
- Over at SciFi Scanner, John Scalzi gives us The Star Trek Movie Cheat Sheet.
- Michael A. Burstein and Paul Levinson love the new Trek film. Sez Burstein: “This isn’t just a great Star Trek film; it’s a great film, period.” Sez Levinson: “…Abrams has done the seemingly impossible, and done it with style and savvy…”
- As you would imagine, Trek lists seem to dominate the latest list round-up:
- @OUPblog: 10 favorite words from the Star Trek universe.
- io9 lists 6 Theories Of Time Travel In Star Trek.
- 5 Reasons Women Should Like Star Trek.
- Bloginhood lists Top 10 Best Moments in the Star Trek Movies.
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You know, I rely so much on these tidbit roundups every morning, but I always forget that sometimes I might post something worth aggregating as well.
The new Trek film is bloody brilliant.
Thanks for the link, John.