SF Tidbits for 10/22/09

• Events:
  • Jeff VanderMeer’s Endurance Tour: 36 Days, 27 Events, 14 States, 2 Books, 1 Writer.
  • As part of the Fantastic Fiction free reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Sarah Micklem (Wildfire) & Alisa Kwitney (Moonburn) Wednesday November 18th, 7pm at KGB Bar in NYC.
  • Forbidden Planet will have a signing by Gareth David-Lloyd (Torchwood) who is launching the exciting new web thriller Girl Number 9. The signing is at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on Tuesday 27th October from 5:30 – 6:30pm.
• Interviews:
  • @Marshall’s Super-Sekrit Clubhouse: Amal El-Mohtar
  • @Agony Column: Jewell Gomez at SF in SF / Litquake on October 10, 2009
  • @Book Nook: Bruce Cordell
  • @Dragon Page: Douglas Clegg
  • @Laptop Magazine: Eoin Colfer
  • @The Lovecraft News Network: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • @BSC Review: Michael Connelly
  • @Tor.com: Dan Hillier and Tom Lloyd
  • Stomping on Yeti interviews M. Rickert.
• Apex Publications signs two book deal with Gary A. Braunbeck.
• Phillip Palmer asks: Is this the Golden Age of SF (and if not, why not?) [via The Website at the End of the Universe]
• Jason Sanford Online looks at Genre Magazines, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
• The latest issue of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine features fiction from Stephen Dedman, Damien Broderick & Paul Di Filippo, and Brian Stableford.
• Disney now offers digital books.
• John Scalzi asks: Can SciFi Movies Be Cool?
• Real Science: Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension. [via Velcro City Tourist Board]
• @SCI FI Wire: 9 rampaging space zombies hungry for our sci-fi brains.
• Dresden Codak has a neat graphic illustrating 42 Essential plot twists for writers. [via Boing Boing]
• Awesome cartoon of the day: Witness Mr. Henry Bemis in the digital age.

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