SF Tidbits for 7/9/09

• Interviews and Profiles:
  • @Wizards of the Coast: Marty Durham has a two-part video interview with fantasy author R.A. Salvatore. [via QuasarDragon]
  • @GeekDad: Alan Dean Foster.
  • @Agony Column: Lou Anders, Editor of Fast Forward 2.
  • @The Nebula Awards website: Richard Bowes.
  • Copper Robot podcast-interviews Robert Charles Wilson (Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America). (See also: Their Second Life video version) [via Boing Boing]
  • Niall Harrison has posted the transcript of a BBC interview with Alastair Reynolds and Adam Roberts.
• For those still looking for the now-missing SciFiction archive from the SciFi Channel’s original website, behold the Internets!
• The Art Department shows us the Spectrum 17 Call For Entries poster.
• Dean Wesley Smith on what the world would be like without copyright.
• Mark Chadbourn’s Omnivoracious Guest Post on the Age of Misrule series: The Invisible Hand of the Gods of Writing.
• Nancy Kress likes Shadow Unit.
• At Black Gate, James Enge looks at Henry Kuttner’s Gallagher Stories.
• Seth Godin on The purpose of a book cover. [via Bibliophile Stalker] Meanwhile, Bookninja says All Book Cover Designers Are Liars.
• The Internet Review of Science Fiction welcomes new Editor Robin Shantz of Bloginhood and Not a Planet Anymore fame. Well, not fame so much as court orders. Hiyo!
• Is the Science Fiction Book Club considering eBooks?
• Tanga is selling a Sexy Slave Leia Costume for $WhoCares. [Thanks, Kevin!]
• Lists:
  • @myFiveBest: Five Best Fantasy Series of Books. [via The World in the Satin Bag]
  • Over at AMC, Nick Nadel lists Stan Lee’s Best and Worst Marvel Movie Cameos.
  @Screen Rant: The Top 5 Astronaut Movies of All Time.

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