SF Tidbits for 9/5/09

• Interviews & Profiles:
  • Over at her wonderful blog, Sci-Fi Fan Letter, Jessica Strider interviews Freda Warrington, author of Elfland.
  • The latest episode of The Sofanauts features Sean Williams, Mike Wood, and Cheryl Holland.
  • io9 talks with the Next Generation at Locus Magazine, Liza Trombi and Kirsten Gong-Wong.
• Frederik Pohl on the Writers of the Future contest.
• Kurt Vonnegut explains drama. [via Cynical-C Blog]
• Cory Doctorow‘s latest Locus column, Special Pleading, talks about the damned-if-you-do/ damned-if-you-don’t nature of free ebook skepticism.
• Over at the Guardian, Eric Brown reviews The Hurricane Party by Klas Ostergren, The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu, Nova War by Gary Gibson, and The Age of Ra by James Lovegrove.
• Over at Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer is asking for book/beer pairing suggestion..
• Gary Farber knows what Damon Knight actually said about science fiction. [via The Crotchety Old Fan]
• Tor.com is allowing you to preview Chapter 1 of The Gathering Storm, the upcoming volume of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. And more for fans (as per Irene Gallo): beginning October 27th Tor will to release ebook editions of the series…with all-new covers.
• I so want to have Neil Gaiman’s Library. [via John Scalzi]
• @TheBookseller: Publishers cancelling books to cut costs.
• Researcher Lisa Gold in praise of browsing: “Browsing and searching are different- browsing is about the journey, searching is about the destination. Searching is focused on finding specific information quickly and often leads to tunnel-vision, which can prevent you from recognizing useful sources that don’t match your preconceived ideas and assumptions.” [via Gwenda Bond]
• Sean Markey is running a contest: Read his FREE story “Waiting for the Green Woman,” which appears in Sybil’s Garage No. 6., then leave a comment there or at his site, and you can win a FREE copy of Sybil’s Garage #6.
• Cool Art pic of the day: Steampunk Avengers! [via Steam Laughing Squid]
• Puppy on a hovercraft! Puppy on a hovercraft!
• Lists:
  • Mish Sci Fi Musings has a video list of The 10 Best Dystopian Films.
  • Den of Geek has a wonderfully-presented list of The Top 75 Spaceships in movies and TV.

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