SF Tidbits for 5/9/09

• Interviews and Profiles:
  • SciFiDimensions podcast-interviews Michio Kaku (Physics of the Impossible). Great stuff. I said it before and I’ll say it again: Being a theoretical physicist is a great gig.
  • The Los Angeles Times profiles Ursula K. Le Guin.
  • The latest Sofanauts podcast features Jeremy Tolbert, Damien G Walter, and Lawrence Santoro.
  • Chris Roberson loves the new Trek film. Sez Roberson: “If you love Trek, go see it. If you’ve always hated Trek before now, go see it–you won’t hate it anymore…”
  • @Tor.com: Gordon Van Gelder.
  • @Neth Space: Brent Weeks.
• Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Afterburn SF: “Ten Little Phobias” by Bev Vincent.
  • @Hub: “Old Clothes” by Chris Cyr.
  • @Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
    • “The Sacrifice Pit” by Brian Dolton.
    • “Clockwork Heart, Clockwork Soul” by Kris Dikeman.
  • @Feedbooks:
    • The Great White Queen by William Le Queux (1897)
    The Beetle by Richard Marsh (1897).
  • @Audio Fiction:
    • @LibriVox: “Hunters Out of Space” by Joseph E. Kelleam, read by Elliott Miller.
    • @PodCastle: “Down in the Flood” by Nisi Shawl, read by Elizabeth Green Musselman.
    • @Tor.com “Last Son of Tomorrow” by Greg Van Eekhout. [via SFFaudio]
    • @Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “Driftwood” by Marie Brennan.
    • Pseudopod episode 141 features three short audio horrors: “Jordan, when are you going to settle down, get married and have us some children?” by J.R, read by Ben Phillips, “Thinking About Polar Bears” by Mike Battista, read by Matt Arnold, and “Exit Exam, Section III: Survival Skills, Question #7″ by David Erik Nelson, read by Alasdair Stuart.
• Interzone has published the results of the 2008 Interzone Readers’ Poll. [via Jason Sanford]
• Mark Charon Newton’s first two fantasy novels (beginning with Nights of Villjamur) are being published in the U.S. by Del Rey.
• Colin Harvey‘s new book, Winter Song is due to be published by Angry Robot Books.
• Jeff VanderMeer reviews the Dungeon graphic novels.
• Old Kirk meets new Kirk in The Shatner Menagerie. [via The Perennial Purveyor of Pop Culture, Chris Roberson]
• McG spills the beans on the Terminator ending you won’t see.
• Is Christian Bale renewing his J.G. Ballard connection with an adaptation of Concrete Island?
• Fandomania has a nice gallery of Fan Art from Star Trek The Original Series.
• LIFE magazine features a gallery of First Star Trek Episode Photos and Star Trek Fans Best Costumes.
• Lists:
  • Literary Tweets lists 100+ of the Best Authors on Twitter, grouped by genre. (And don’t forget to follow us, too!) [via Alan Baxter]
  • @io9: The Dumbest Space Operas Of All Time.
  • @Suvudu: The 10 Worst Stories Alan Campbell Ever Tried to Write
  • Trek lists:
    • @SCI FI Wire: 11 things about Star Trek that made us go ‘WTF?’
    • @GeekDad: 10 Things Parents Should Know About the New Star Trek.
    • @Fantasy Magazine: The Best/Worst Star Trek Episodes Of All Time: The Original Series.
    • @Topless Robot: 5 Things Chris Pine Must Do in the New Trek Movie to Truly Be Captain Kirk.
    • @Great White Snark: The Top 5 Awful Star Trek Tattoos.

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1. SF Tidbits for 7/7/07
2. SF Tidbits Part XXXII
3. SF Tidbits for 3/21/06
4. SF Tidbits for 6/11/08
5. SF Tidbits for 5/6/09

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