SF Tidbits for 8/27/09

• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @Philip José Farmer International Bibliography: Win Scott Eckert.
  • Authors By Design interviews Karen Miller.
  • Fantasy Magazine interviews Lev Grossman.
• GalleyCat asks; What’s Urban Fantasy? What’s Paranormal Romance?
• Free excerpt: Underland Press has posted a lengthy excerpt of Jeff VanderMeer’s Finch. [via Jeff VanderMeer, who also eveals other cool Finch extras...]
• Jo Walton’s love/hate relationship with funny fiction: “I hate things that are trying to be funny, rather than letting the humour bubble up from underneath.”
• Joseph Mallozzi’s October Book of the Month Club Selection is…Open Your Eyes, by Paul Jessup (which I happened to like.)
• Jim C. Hines tells us The Hugo Awards are shaped that way for a reason.
• Reactions to recent Gender discussions from S.M. Duke and OF Blog of the Fallen.
• Super Punch shares H.R. Giger’s ads for Pioneer.
• Summer Glau is better than my girlfriend.
• At AMC, John Scalzi will undoubtedly ignite even more nerdgassing over his new article, Epic SciFi Design FAILs – Star Trek Edition.
• Lists:
  • @Rotten Tomatoes: Respectable Horror Sequels
  • @io9: The Science Fiction Sitcoms That Never Were.
  • @SCI FI Wire: 12 weird sci-fi statues you can buy for your garden.
  • @BestScienceFictionStories: 5 Great Science Fiction Stories that Contain Talking Animals.

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1. SF Tidbits for 8/7/09
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4. SF Tidbits for 8/26/09
5. SF Tidbits for 8/18/09

Tagged with: Finch • H.R. Giger • Jeff VanderMeer • Jim C. Hines • Jo Walton • Joseph Mallozzi • Karen Miller • Lev Grossman • Paranormal Romance • Star Trek • Summer Glau • Tidbits • urban fantasy • Win Scott Eckert

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