SF Tidbits for 6/17/09

• The Always-awesome Cover Browser website has been update with new galleries of Stephen King Book Covers, X-Men Book Covers, Doctor Who Book Covers, and Isaac Asimov Book Covers.
• Adam Paquette shows off his awesome, step-by-step artwork done for Wizards of the Coast.
• At Reading and Writing podcast, Jeff Rutherford interviews Joe R. Lansdale.
• Here’s a mini-report from Black Library Day.
• Michael A. Burstein continues his essay on The Value of An Artist’s Work.
• Mike Brotherton On Science Fiction and Novelty Seeking: “One of the reasons I love science fiction is that, frankly, I am easily bored and depressed by normal everyday life.”
• Jeff Somers loves him some bad books: “Let’s contemplate the horror of Xanth books…”
• Meet Heather Massey…C.J. Cherryh fangirl
• @The Guardian: “If you measure the health of literature by its impact on language, then there’s no genre in better condition than SF.”
• The Dragon Page’s Cover to Cover podcast talks about Becoming a New Author.
• Talebones, the monthly magazine, is closing up shop. Rising from the ashes: Talebones the annual anthology. [via Vera Nazarian]
• Stephen King’s and Peter Straub’s The Talisman comes to the comics.
• Captain America is not a zombie, but he is coming back from the dead. [via SciFi Scanner]
• Here’s a cool Futuristic Movie Timeline. [via Popped Culture]
• One of the things I always loved about Star Wars was the landscapes and architectures. That’s why I like Architects Journal‘s list of The architecture of Star Wars (Part 1).
• Graham Sleight lists The 12 Best Theodore Sturgeon Stories.

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