SF Tidbits for 7/29/09

• The New Yorker chats with Ursula K. Le Guin about The Left Hand of Darkness. [via Locus Online]
• The Vietnam News interviews the head of the VFSF, biologist and SF writer Vu Kim Dung. [via The World SF News Blog]
• Locus Online has the Scribe Award Winners, honoring the best in media tie-in fiction.
• Peter V. Brett’s debut fantasy novel The Warded Man has been optioned for film by the people behind Resident Evil.
• Tolkien’s heirs want production of The Hobbit stopped. [via Locus Online]
• Sez Joe Abercrombie: “RPGs have nothing like the wide cultural purchase they used to…” as evidenced by his neighbor’s lack of knowledge of Dungeons & Dragons.
• @ThGalaxyExpress: How Science Fiction Romance Can Reinvent Penny Dreadfuls Into Something Wonderful.
• For the nightclubbing geek: Red Shirt Star Trek Cologne. Smell your best on your last away mission.
• Warren Ellis is Scripting King Arthur. “It’s NOT an Excalibur remake, ok?”
• MentatJack lists The Chocolate and Peanut Butter of Noir and Speculative Fiction.

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