SF Tidbits for 6/4/09
By John DeNardo |
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @S.M. Peters (Whitechapel Gods).
- @The Nebula Awards: Mary Rosenblum.
- @CBR: William F. Nolan talks about the Logan’s Run comics.
- @Neth Space has 2 separate interviews with Kate Griffin and Mark Chadbourn.
- @The Future And You podcast: James Maxey.
- @Tor.com: Paul S. Kemp.
- Awards:
- Author/Editor Jeff Crook is launching a new literary award for heroic fantasy and sword-and-sorcery stories. The award is titled The Ham-Sized Fist Award and offers a $300 prize each for the author and publisher. [via Jason Sanford]
- Jacek Dukaj’s epic alternate history/science fiction novel Lód (“Ice”) is one of the winners of the European Commission’s brand new European Prize for Literature.
- Excerpts:
- Jonathan Strahan shows off the new cover of The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Vol 3. (Here’s the table of contents released Several months back.)
- John C. Wright has a wallpaper-worthy copy of Scott Fisher’s awesome Titans of Chaos cover art.
- Jeff Prucher (Brave New Words) looks at The Lingo of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fandom
- The new issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction is out.
- SFX reports that Shaun Lyon, founder of the legendary Doctor Who site Outpost Gallifrey, has announced the closure of the site and forum.
- Hands up: Who knew 2001: A Space Odyssey was a 10-issue comic book series? Cover gallery provided by the awesome resource Cover Browser.
- The Harlan Ellison documentary Dreams with Sharp Teeth is available as a download on iTunes.
- Real Simian Science: National Geographic’s pictorial history of space monkeys. [via Chris Roberson via Gerry Canavan via Metafilter...link love for everybody!]
- Dork Tower takes on Twitter.
- Oh No They Didn’t lists The 46 Remakes/Reboots Hollywood Has on Tap…because they hate your memories.
- At SciFi Scanner, you’ll learn about the 3 SciFi Movies That Make John Scalzi Cry.
- Disney papercraft: Printable UP House with Balloons
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- SF Tidbits for 10/30/07
- SF Tidbits for 1/31/08
- SF Tidbits Part XVIII
- SF Tidbits for 12/14/08
- SF Tidbits for 4/6/06
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I very much hope this (yet another!) prize for Jacek Dukaj might encourage foreign (especially English-language) publishers to publish translations of his books. He’s the biggest talent in Polish science fiction since Stanisław Lem.