SF Tidbits for 8/1/09

• Ridley Scott is set to direct an Alien prequel film. WTF? Sir Ridley said Science Fictions are as dead as Westerns…Don’t get me started.
• Marty Halpern talks about his personal memories of Jack Vance.
• Mark Teppo talks about ideas in his guest-post at Electric Velocipede Blog.
• In response to Joe Abercrombie’s Dungeons & Dragons post, Bill Ward says Thank You, D&D .
• Edward Champion asks: Are Bookstores Being Too Censorious With Author Events?
• Weird Tales will be releasing One-Minute Weird Tales micro-fictions weekly from now through Halloween. [via J.M. McDermott]
• David Langford has posted the new Ansible for August 2009.
• Art:
  • Abduzeedo visullally lists 50 Tiny Superheroes Illustrations by Marcio Takara. Cool.
  • Steampunk Mickey Mouse. Also cool. [via Blog@Newsarama]
• Spiderman Saves the Day! Yay, Spiderman!
• More Dork Tower vs. The SyFy Channel.
• An Engadget contest to skin the Kindle has resulted in some cool designs — like this one based on Philip K. Dick’s Ubik.
• You want a jetpack? I got your jetpack tight here. Just bring your own water. [via Boing Boing]
• @io9 lists Our Favorite Last Lines From Science Fiction Novels and Science Fiction’s Scariest Priests and Preachers.
• Name that book: They speak German and they carry whips.

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