SF Tidbits for 3/29/08
- Free Fiction:
- Project Gutenberg has The Green Rust by Edgar Wallace.
- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction says it’s time to read “Start the Clock” by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
- This week’s Tor freebies: Lord of the Isles by David Drake and two wallpapers by Raymond Swanland (with his cover for ) and Dan Dos Santos (with his painting for a MicroVisions charity auction).
- Matthew Sanborn Smith has redesigned his website and included links to some of his free fiction in the process.
- Recently-free fiction at ManyBooks.net: “Longevity” by Therese Windser (1960) and “A Matter of Magnitude” by Al Sevcik (1960).
- Interviews:
- The latest Bat Segundo Show podcast features Jeffrey Ford, author of The Shadow Year.
- At Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer interviews Felix Gilman, author of Thunderer.
- At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Sarah Hall, author of The Carhullan Army, a finalist for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award.
- Michael A. Stackpole now has an asteroid named after him. [via ComicMix]
- Robert J. Sawyer looks at the ethics of Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations”.
- Fiona Kelleghan presented a paper at International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts on Humor in the SF of Robert J. Sawyer. Have a listen. [via Locus Online]
- Paleo-Future shares this image scan from the back cover of a 1939 issue of Amazing Stories that shows a Future War Tank. It looks like a giant, metal cockroach, albeit a cool-looking, kick-@$$ one…
- GalleyCat has more on the revolving book cover debate.
- Blog@Newsarama has the X-Files 2 poster. Meh.
- Reclaiming Superman: “A federal judge here on Wednesday ruled that the heirs of Jerome Siegel — who 70 years ago sold the rights to the action hero he created with Joseph Shuster to Detective Comics for $130 — were entitled to claim a share of the United States copyright to the character.” [via Screen Rant]
- On a related note: Great White Snark offers Five Suggestions for the Lex-Luthor-Free 8th Season of Smallville, which includes a suggestive video that Trent is sure to love.
- Entertainment Weekly has started posting Firefly episodes courtesy of Hulu. Gee, I wish we thought of that because that’s a cool idea!
- Entertainment Weekly lists The 20 worst comic book movies ever. Keith R.A. DeCandido comments.
- Popular Mechanics lists The 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Films, complete with a rundown of the hits and misses of each one.
- InfoAddict lists The Best 11 Time Travel Tales of All Time and includes titles from television, movies and books. It’s a decent list…and overlaps some with the SciFi Scanner slide show I wrote: The Best Uses of Time-Travel. I know I have a copy of Rucker’s Master of Space and Time somewhere…may have to dig it up and actually read the darn thing.
