SF Tidbits for 7/17/09
By John DeNardo |
Friday, July 17th, 2009 at
12:08 am
- The first novel of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series, The Lightning Thief is headed for theaters in February 2010.
- Interviews & Profiles:
- Gail Martin’s Ghost in the Machine Podcast welcomes Mur Lafferty and Mark Charan Newton.
- SciFi Wire profiles Kevin J. Anderson and his latest novel, The Edge of the World
- @The Nebula Awards website: Mike Allen.
- Editor Marty Halpern uses Alastair Reynolds as a use-case for exercising author patience before publishing a short story collection.
- A.V. Club explores Steampunk!
- Book View Café adds author Sarah Smith to its already estimable ranks.
- Is it that time of year already? It’s books & beer with Ann & Jeff VanderMeer!
- Cool, lighthearted space art at Avalanche Software Art Blog: Lord Chesterton P. Sparksbury by Sam Nielson.
- According to Total SciFi Online, Galactica 1980 is coming back…in comic book form. In the name of all that is holy, why?
- Pawel Dembowski writes in to tell us that Sean Bean has been cast as Eddard Stark in the Game of Thrones pilot.
- EVENTS:
- As part of the Fantastic Fiction free reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Kaaron Warren (Slights) & Robert Freeman Wexler (The Painting and the City) Wednesday August 19th, 7pm at KGB Bar in NYC. (See also; Ellen’s photos from the July 15 KGB Reading with Cat Rambo, Jack Womack, Kris Dikeman, and Samuel R. Delany.)
- Ace & Roc are hosting and off-site Comic Con author event: A Science Fiction & Fantasy Panel Discussion and Signing at Border (668 6th Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101) at 8:00 pm. Attending authors include Patrick Rothfuss, Kat Richardson, Rob Thurman, Thomas Sniegoski, Amber Benson, Seanan McGuire, and Jeanne Stein.
- Cinemacom lists The 42 Best Sci-Fi Movies between 1950-1965
- Geek gear of the Week: R2-Q5 USB hub. It looks like R2-D2′s evil twin.
- Geek gear of the Year: The Flip-Top Zombie Shirt
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You know what’s funny is, I saw the trailer for “the Lightning Thief” on the front of the Harry Potter film, last night. And the title is: “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief”
Which was SO LONG and was moving across the screen for such a SHORT period of time, I actually couldn’t read it all.
I mean, that is a long title!