SF Tidbits for 7/31/07
- Free eBook and audiobook: The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley. [via Quasar Dragon]
- Amy Sterling Casil (who has been added to our list of sf/f authors who blog) asks blogging authors what blogging does for them. [via Tobias Buckell, an author who blogs.]
- James Patrick Kelly is podcasting his novel Look Into the Sun. Here’s Part 22.
- Cinematical audio-interviews Neil Gaiman. Neil is also profiled at SciFi Wire about the adaptation of his graphic novel Death: The High Cost of Living.
- Tim Mortiss points us to a list of recursive science fiction…that is, sf which references sf itself.
- Over at Comic Mix, Andrew Wheeler rounds up some ComicCon report links.
- Howard Waldrop & Lawrence Person review The Simpsons Movie.
- Avalanche Software Art Blog whips up Star Wars character Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits). These guys seriously need to publish an art book…
- One for Kalpana (and other Bollywood-holics): Shah Rukh Khan has been cast to star in the Indian science fiction film Robot.
- Cinematical also has the scoop on the plot of the Futurama movie: “Alien nudist Internet scammers attempt to take over Earth through a plot that involves sending the robot Bender through time to steal the planet’s cultural treasures.”
- SciFi Scanner points us to a shiny Serenity poster set featuring everyone’s favorite nebulously evil corporation villain, Blue Sun.
- At Strange Horizons, Marshall Perrin looks at real planetary exploration in his article Settings for Space Opera, Part II: A Perplexing Plethora of Planets. “The discovery of planets around other stars is now a routine occurrence. As I write this, 240 are known, but that total may well be higher by the time you read these words: on average, a new planet is found every two weeks.”
- Cynical-C points us to wikipedia’s list of artificial objects on the Moon.
- Finally…an answer to the question “How does Darth Vader get around when his Tie Fighter is in the shop?” It’s the Darth Vader bicycle. [via Club Jade]
