• Interviews & Profiles:
  • Suvudu has a video interviews with Aaron Allston, Christie Golden, and Troy Denning, authors of the Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi series.
  • The Nebula Awards website interviews Charles Coleman Finlay.
  • SciFiNow has an interview with Director Alex Proyas.


• The World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award winners for 2009 are Jane Yolen and Ellen Asher.


• Win Scott Eckert posts covers for Phantom Chronicles 2.


• Cory Doctorow explains Why free ebooks should be part of the plot for writers: "...the right time to do a free ebook release is when the printed book is available..."


• David Brin has some issues with LOST, that "infuriating television show".


• The Outer Alliance is a new group dedicated to intelligent discussion of LGBT issues in speculative literature. [via Cheryl's Mewsings via Hal Duncan]


• Amy Sterling Casil looks at more Star Trek book covers.


• James Wallace Harris asks: Has the Universe Gotten Too Big for Science Fiction?


• EVENT: As part of the Fantastic Fiction free reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Andrew Fox (The Good Humor Man and Calorie 3501) & Chris Genoa (Foop! and the upcoming Lick Your Neighbor) Wednesday September 16th, 7pm at KGB Bar in NYC.


• Quiz: Can you name the books of George Orwell?


• The chicago-sf.org has some tidbist of interest:
  • Peter Watts (posting as 'megasquid') answers questions about his book Starfish.
  • The reading group's September selection is Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr. [via Allan Rosewarne]


• Apex is running a promotion in support of Harlan County Horrors.


• @Wired: Marvel Moves Into Motion Comics With Spider-Woman.


• The Steampunk Workshop points us to the cool steampunk artwork of Ivan Mavrovic.


• Publishers Weekly's Genreville blog gets a reboot and a new (redirect) domain name.


• Horror Squad looks at science fiction horror films. [via ScifiSquad]


• Retro-Geek-cool: USS Enterprise record player.


• Lists:
  • Neil Gaiman and Wil Wheaton make the list of Top 10 Twitter Feeds to Follow by HowStuffWorks.
  • @Geeks are Sexy: Top 5 Places to get Free Science Fiction Online.
  • @GeekDad: 5 Science Fiction/Fantasy Books We Wish Had Never Been Written.
  • @Comicbook.com: 10 Fall Movies For Comic Book Geeks.
  • @Bookstove: 5 Sci-Fi Books That Should be Made into Movies.
  • @io9: The Best of SciFi's Oppressed Alien Species.
  • @SFX: SciFi's 26 Greatest Tearjerkers.
  • @Fancast: 50 Sci Fi Things You Must Watch Now.
  • @SCI FI Wire: The 10 most badass sci-fi battlesuits ever.
  • A response to Quentin Tarantino's picks for Top 20 Movies of the last 17 years: Joseph Mallozzi's Top 20 Movies of the Past 17 Years.
  • Just...Wow. Concept Art World has 25 Inspiring Examples of Spaceships and Aircraft.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday August 19, 2009 at 12:05 AM
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