TOC: ‘The Best of Frederik Pohl’ by Frederik Pohl (eBook reprint)

By John DeNardo | Monday, September 17th, 2012 at 2:00 pm

Frederik Pohl has posted the table of contents for the new ebook version of his 1975 collection The Best of Frederik Pohl:

Here’s the book description:

A selection of the cream of the crop from three decades of science fiction stories by one of the field’s most honored and popular writers. Includes such classics as “Day Million,” “The Midas Plague,” “The Day the Martians Came,” and sixteen more stories. With an afterword by the author.

Here’s the table of contents…
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VIDEO: Science Fiction Legends Talk About The SF Grand Masters

By John DeNardo | Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 at 12:20 am

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Filmmaker Eric Solstein has uploaded the first two parts of a larger tribute to Science Fiction’s Grand Masters presented at the 2000 SFWA Nebula banquet at the installation of Brian Aldiss. There’s wonderful footage of so many SF legends, including Jack Williamson, Frederik Pohl, Isaac Asimov, James Gunn, William Tenn, Clifford D. Simak, Joe Haldeman, Philip Jos@eacute; Farmer, Norman Spinrad, Damon Knight (for whom the Grand Master Award is now named), Julie Schwartz, Gene Wolfe, Hal Clement, Poul Anderson, Samuel R. Delany, Barry Malzberg and Brian Aldiss.

There’s a longer follow-up video after the break…

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SF Tidbits for 10/13/09

By John DeNardo | Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 12:05 am

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Interviews and Profiles:
- @PopCultureShock: Mike Mignola Talks About 15 Years of Hellboy, B.P.R.D. & More |
- @Tor.com: Artist Keith Thompson.
- @Agony Column Podcast: Margaret Atwood.
Frederik Pohl on fandom (part 5).
Ellen Datlow reports on the The Funeral (that should have been) for Edgar Allan Poe.
@Tor.com: Erika Nelson reviews Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites.
Neil Gaiman and BBC will let you Twitter a story for them.
BenBella Books has posted Chris Roberson’s essay “An Angel on His Shoulder, A Devil on Hers“, one of the essay in Say We All: Collected Thoughts and Opinions on Battlestar Galactica edited by Richard Hatch.
Three Words: Zombie Marvel Superheroes
John Anealio has written a cool song for Jeff VanderMeer’s Last Drink Bird Head. [via Ecstatic Days]
EVENT: Forbidden Planet hosts a signing by horror legend Clive Barker Thursday 15th October 6:30 – 7:30pm. Clive will be signing his new DVD The Midnight Meat Train at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR.
Lists:
- Bibliophile Stalker is maintaining a List of Speculative Fiction Anthologies for 2010 to which you can contribute.
- @Tor.com: Top Steampunk Media.
- @io9: Top 10 Greatest Space Zombies Of All Time.
- @AbeBooks: The Top 10 Most Depressing Reads. A couple of genre titles make the list. [via Lit Lists]
- @Mental FLoss: B-Movie Monsters
- Kevin Maher lists 5 Music Videos About Werewolves.
- @SciFi Scanner: The Best and Worst Comic Book Movie Lairs.

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SF Tidbits for 10/3/09

By John DeNardo | Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 at 12:05 am

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Cool news! Scott Westerfeld‘s Midnighters is coming to NBC. The story “revolves around a group of people born at the stroke of midnight who have access to the 25th hour of each day, which they use to stop crime.” [via SFX]
Interviews and Profiles:
- John Scalzi answers Stargate Universe questions.
- Innsmouth Free Press has a brief interview with Mary Robinette Kowal.
- 3 Questions with Mindy Klasky at SF Novelists.
- Jeremy Tolbert and Jeff VanderMeer join host Tony C. Smith in the latest Sofanauts podcast.
- @Only The Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy: David Gunn.
- @Sci-Fi Fan Letter: Gail Carriger.
Frederik Pohl on Fandom. (Part 3)
Octavia Butler’s Papers Bequeathed to Huntington Library. [via Locus Online]
Guest-hosting at Tor.com: Cherie Priest, author of the the aesome recent release, Boneshaker.
The Post-Modernity of Steampunk.
The Directors of Spectrum announced that Richard Corben is the recipient of the 2009 Grand Master Award.
The World SF News Blog is now hosted over on WordPress.
Rare Gene Roddenberry Science Fiction TV Pilots are coming to DVD.
Lists:

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SF Tidbits for 9/29/09

By John DeNardo | Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 12:05 am

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Interviews & Profiles:
- Self-Publishing Review interviews Tessa Dick, the widow of Philip K. Dick, who has reworked the novel he was working on at the time of his death in 1982: The Owl in Daylight.
- Agony Column podcast-interviews Karen Armstrong.
- @Bibliophile Stalker: Kate Baker.
- ActuSF interviews James Lovegrove (The Age Of Ra).
- Locus Online has Locus Magazine interview excerpts with John Clute.
Ben Bova talks about the recent loss of his wife, Barbara.
Frederik Pohl on fandom.
Last week, the Indian science fiction writers met in Varanasi to discuss the future and perils of science fiction writing in India.
Cory Doctorow’s book Little Brother wins the Sunburst Award.
Ross Bradshaw considers: Small presses are often based on one individual. Is that a bad thing? [via Damien G. Walter]
At Juno books, Paula Guran talks about Women, Horror, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance and Other Things I Should Not Say… [via Bibliophile Stalker]
Never underestimate the determination of a sf fan: The SF Team, an informal group of fans and enthusiasts from Serbia, has translated Michael Swanwick‘s Periodic Table of Science Fiction into Serbian.
Free sample from Pyr: The first 5 Chapters of Paul McAuley’s The Quiet War.
Neatorama directs us to this Interactive Map of Banned and Challenged Books.
Writerly Bits:
- Steven Harper Piziks on how to find a writers group.
- Marty Halpern rounds up a bunch of good links for writers.
ScFi Wire asks: Is mysticism overtaking science in sci-fi?
For those musically-inclined (or reclined as the case may be): Buzzgrinder is hosting an Admiral Ackbar song contest.
ABC will only be running a measly 4 episodes of V this year, with the rest of the season appearing in the Spring of 2010. Yeah — only if the rating were good, I’m thinking. [via SciFi Scanner]
Also at SciFi Scanner: Are You a Replicant? Take the Blade Runner Ultimate Fan Quiz and find out!
Slice of SciFi on the upcoming Stargate Universe premiere: “this isn’t your daddy’s ‘Stargate’ series”.

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SF Tidbits for 9/10/09

By John DeNardo | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 12:05 am

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Interviews & Profiles
- Two interviews with LeVar Buron:
  - @DVDs Worth Watching: Levar talks about being Black Lightning in the upcoming animated Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.
  - @NPR: on the end of Reading Rainbow.
- SF Legend Frederik Pohl on L. Ron Hubbard (part 2). Sez Pohl: “He was a chick magnet.”
- @Suite101.com: David Weber (Off Armageddon Reef).
- @Off the Shelf: a podcast-interview with Tobias Buckell. [via Tobias Buckell]
- @Writing Excuses: a podcast-interview with Mary Robinette Kowal.
- @Stomping on Yeti: Paolo Bacigalupi. (The Windup Girl)
@The Guardian, Tola Onanuga tells us Why District 9 isn’t racist against Nigerians: “If District 9 ‘hates Nigerians’, as a Facebook group would have it, then it hates its powerful, white characters even more.”
Tor.com — not Tor the publisher — debuts its first title as a separate publishing entity: Year’s Best Fantasy 9 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. (Table of Contents here.)
“DC Comics is being renamed DC Entertainment, and will as such focus on all media, not just comics.” [via Topless Robot]
Halo-8 Entertainment has slated Matt Pizzolo and Brian Giberson to create an “illustrated film” adaptation in early 2010 of Xombie; Reanimated, a horror/sci-fi adventure comic book created by James Farr, published by Devil’s Due Publishing.
The latest issue of Concatenation is posted.
Does anyone expect (or hope, or fear) Stallone will follow up his Cyborg Rambo with the just-green-lit Judge Dredd remake?
Real (Cool) Science: NASA has released shiny new snapshots from the The Hubble Space Telescope. [via Neatorama]
Real Cool in 4 words (one hyphenated): Animatronic Fire-Breathing Dragon Boat.
Your geek-craft for the week: How to Make a Star Trek Phaser. Yawn. Call me when I can learn how to make a Yeoman Rand.
Lists:
- @SCI FI Wire: Your guide to 11 sci-fi punks. [via Alyx Dellamonica]
- @Fandomania: Ultimate 20 Comic Book Film Adaptations.
- @The Galaxy Express: 5 Ways Digital Publishers Could Increase Science Fiction Romance Sales.

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SF Tidbits for 9/5/09

By John DeNardo | Saturday, September 5th, 2009 at 12:08 am

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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.