• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @Fantasy Book Critic: Mark Chadbourn, author of Age of Misrule.
  • @At Tachyon, Michael Moorcock answers Boing Boing reader questions.
  • @Enter the Octopus: Alexander C. Irvine (Buyout).
  • @The Prague Post: Iain Banks (Transition).
  • @Talking with Tim: Kevin J. Anderson.
  • @SciFiDimensions: Kevin J. Anderson again!
  • The latest Agony Column Podcasts feature:
    • Michael Boatman (The Revenant Road)
    • Jeff VanderMeer at Shared Worlds, the Speculative Fiction Camp for Teens.


• Two for the writers:
  • Nancy Kress on Discipline.
  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Freelancer's Survival Guide: Money (Part 2)


• Cory Doctorow's awesome book, Little Brother, has been optioned for film to Don Murphy (Natural Born Killers).


• Jason Sanford announces the winners of the Million Writers Award.


• Tor.com announces the opening of the Tor.com Store.


• Author Gail Z. Martin is launching her 2009 Hawthorn Moon promotion. We'll be participating in the form of a giveaway. Watch for it in the next few days.


• Check out this awesome photography gallery by Kyle Cassidy of SF/F Authors and Where They Write. [via Patrick Hester]


• A long time ago, in a magazine far away...Fantastic Flashbacks posts a scan of a 1977 Time magazine Star Wars article. [via Science Fiction Brewed Fresh Daily]


• Posthuman Blues point us to this massive gallery of Women in Tubes, mostly from the covers of pulp sf. Natch! [via Gerry Canavan]


• John Anealio has posted a new Sci-Fi Songs Podcast. Learn the story behind "Cylon #6".


• Scifi.co.uk. has developed a game (based on Adobe Air) called Desktop Blaster which converts your computer desktop into a game of Asteroids.


• Lists:
  • @AMC: Mary Robinette Kowal lists Ten Fantasy Fathers Who Really Do Know Best.
  • @bloginhood: Top 10 Dads of SF. JP will love #1.
  • @Scifi Watch: 5 Movies About Writers that Inspire Me to Write.
  • @SF Universe: Torchwood Fun Facts.
  • Lots of genre films on Unreality's list of 10 Most Polarizing Movies of the Last Decade.
  • Patrick at Stomping on Yeti lists Notable works of Theopunk. Add to his list!
  • @Obsessed With Film: 50 reasons why Ghostbusters might be the greatest film of all Time. Ray Parker Jr's Theme Song? Really?

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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday June 19, 2009 at 12:08 AM
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