SF Tidbits for 12/15/09

By John DeNardo | Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 at 12:05 am

News

David D. Levine Wins Endeavor Award for his collection Space Magic.
@Strange Horizons: Three Questions for The Apex Book of World SF Authors
Stephen and Tabitha King foot bill for troops’ ride home.
Stephen King talks about Under the Dome. (See SF Signal review)
The Baen Webscription store now offers eBook version and samplers from the John Joseph Adams anthologies By Blood We Live and The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
The Art and Audio Directors behind the game Dante’s Inferno will talk about bringing the game to life in a live web stream this Wednesday at 1pm PST / 4pm EST.
Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist on Boycotting the video game version of Orson Scott Card’s Empire.

Articles

Podcast: Listen to Jess Nevins’ IEET seminar talk “Those Who Cannot Remember Doc Savage Are Condemned To Repeat Him: The 20th Century Backlash Against Posthuman Bodybuilders“.
@The World in the Satin Bag: Why Avatar Will Suck, and Everyone Will See It Anyway.
Andrew Wheeler reviews Batman: specifically, Neil Gaiman’s Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? and Grant Morrison’s Batman: R.I.P..
Angry Robot Books is running a “12 Days of Christmas” post series. In case you missed it, Part 1 featured Colin Harvey and Part 2 featured Chris Roberson.

Fun Stuff & Lists

Poll: Darth Vader vs. Clark Griswold: a Tournament of Movie Dads
@Books Worth Reading: A Post-Apocalyptic Reading List.
@io9: 20 Greatest SF Movies Of The Past Decade.
@Techland: Top 10 Worst Superhero Movies of the Decade.
@Film School Rejects: Battlefield Earth and Rollerball make the list of The 15 Worst Movies of the Decade.
@B&N: Paul Goat Allen list of the best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2009. [via Deanna Hoak]
@Topless Robot: The 10 Most Notable Alien Rip-Offs

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