SF Tidbits for 6/24/09

• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @SFX: Chris Wooding (Retribution Falls).
  • @Tor.com: Ken Scholes (Lamentation).
  • At Bloggasm, Simon Owens interviews Tor.com editor Pablo Defendini and asks: Is Tor Books seeking to become the Amazon of science fiction and fantasy?
• Recent goodies from @Tor.com:
  • Jay Lake on Telling Stories With Character.
  • Jo Walton reviews Samuel Delany’s Babel 17: “If Babel 17 were published now as a new book, I think it would strike us [a] great work that was doing wonderful things and expanding the boundaries of science fiction.”
• James Maxey is giving away free copies of Dragonseed to people who donate to support breast cancer research: [via Eric James Stone]
• Farah Mendlesohn has a 4-part reveiw of The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction.
• Bibliophile Stalker tells us How the eBook industry is not like the music industry.
• The World in the Satin Bag looks at The Rules of Shelving Books.
• What do you get when you cross the pace of print journalism, the creativity of fiction, and the interactivity of web 2.0? A wovel — a weekly serial with a vote button at the end of each installment. Read the first installment of Exit Vector at Underland Press.
• Lists:
  • @RottenTomatoes: The 50 Best Movie Robots.
  • Sci-Fi Fan Letter round up Firts-Time Authors to Watch For.

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