SF Tidbits for 11/17/07
- PopMatters profiles Olaf Stapledon (Last and First Men: “…to sit and complain about the lack of credit Stapledon receives is to undermine the very principle for which he was writing about: mankind’s yearning for community.”
- The Guardian has Margaret Atwood on Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: “Surely it’s time to look again at Brave New World and to examine its arguments for and against the totally planned society it describes, in which “everybody is happy now”. What sort of happiness is on offer, and what is the price we might pay to achieve it?”
- At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Josh Conviser, author of Empyre.
- Biblioteca interviews Keith R. A. DeCandido (Star Trek: The Next Generation: Q&A).
- Jeff VanderMeer explains his selections for Amazon’s and lists some near misses.
- Artists Ted Nasmith has been commissioned to illustarte the castles of Westeros, from George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. [via Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist]
- Fred K. writes in to tell us about this selection of music “created to invoke the themes, locations, characters, and moods of H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.” Creepy indeed….
- SyFy Portal lists The 10 Strangest Pregnancies On Sci-Fi Television.
- Top5 SciFi lists 8 Drawbacks of Being a Bimbo From Outer Space. “#6: Spacemen who think it’s a great come on to stress the words: dock, probe, thrust, Uranus, black hole and photon torpedo.”
