SF Tidbits for 7/14/09

• The 2008 Shirley Jackson Awards winners were announced on Sunday, July 12th 2009, at Readercon 20 [via Ellen Datlow]
• Zombie Tidbits:
  • Chris Roberson announces I, Zombie, a new ongoing comic series from Vertigo by co-creators Chris Roberson (writer) and Mike Allred (artist). I, Zombie is the story of Gwendolyn “Gwen” Dylan, zombie girl detective. Think graveyards, ghosts, vampires and werewolves with a twist.
  • Speaking of zombies, Dave Ra poza has some fantastic portrait drawings at Gorilla Artfare.
  • Yes, I’m still talking about zombies. And so is Publishers Weekly with their article Might of the Living Dead.
  • Still on the zombie thing….Indie horror press (and zombie fiction specialist) Permuted Press announced a new seven book deal with Pocket Books. See also: an interview at Enter the Octopus with Permuted Press founder, Jacob Kier.
  • Gatekeeper is an in-production zombie thriller with Matthew O’Leary, Lea Thompson, Judge Reinhold, Ron Perlman and Jana Kramer attached.
• Interviews:
  • Bibliophile Stalker interviews Lou Anders, editor of Fast Forward 2. (Thanks for the shout-out, Lou! )
  • James Enge (Blood of Ambrose) is interviewed by Adventures in SciFi Publishing and Joseph Mallozzi’s readers.
  • Suite 101 interviews Hal Duncan.
• Orbit will be publishing The Dagger and the Coin, a new epic fantasy series from Daniel Abraham
• Speaking of Readercon, here are Readercon photos from Michael A. Burstein, Kathryn Cramer, Ellen Datlow, Lawrence Person, and Sean Wallace.
• From the ReaderCon program: Elizabeth Hand — An Appreciation.
• Steven Paul Leiva is Searching for Ray Bradbury: “…Bradbury keeps being called a science fiction writer, and for some of us that is monumentally inadequate.”
• At The Guardian…Space operas and far futures: “This is a golden age for British science fiction, chiefly thanks to a wave of writers who are tackling an area their American rivals tend to leave well alone – far-future set, space-operatic, hard sci-fi.”
• For the writers: Rachelle Gardner, Literary Agent, look at Social Networking vs. Writing. And to drive that point home, consider this Will Write For Chocolate comic strip. [via Bibliophile Stalker and Michelle Swiniarski]
• Apollo 11 moon mission to be recreated on the web.
• Tor.com blogger Eugene Myers calls The Toxic Avenger Musical “Good Green Fun”. See also; my AMC interview with director, John Rando.
• Topless Robot lists 5 Direct-to-DVD Sci-Fi Movie Sequels That Should Never Have Happened.

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1. SF Tidbits for 7/10/06
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3. SF Tidbits for 7/11/06
4. SF Tidbits for 7/28/06
5. SF Tidbits for 6/27/07

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