SF Tidbits for 5/14/08
- John Scalzi turns the blog mike over to Melinda Snodgrass, who talks about her new book The Edge of Reason.
- “Jeanette Winterson told SCI FI Wire that her latest novel, The Stone Gods, was inspired by the idea put forth by Stephen Hawking that man must colonize space if he is to have a viable future.”
- Hard Case Crime will be publishing Roger Zelazny’s long-lost and recently-discovered unpublished noir novel The Dead Man’s Brother in early 2009. (Read a sample chapter.) [via SFScope]
- SFFaudio collects some MP3s of Arthur C. Clarke talking about Stanley Kubrick.
- Matrix interviews Pyr Editor Lou Anders. (PDF link.)
- Cover Pr0n:
- Kathryn Cramer previews the cool covers for the anthologies Year’s Best SF 13 and Year’s Best Fantasy 8, which she co-edits with David G. Hartwell.
- Jeffrey Ford’s minimalist cover for The Drowned Life.
- Lit Soup is featuring the book trailer for The Mirrored Heavens by David J. Williams.
- The website for Jeff Somers’ novel The Electric Church was a nice complement to the book. Orbit and Somers are at it again with the website for the sequel, The Digital Plague.
- Weird Tales continues their profiles of The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years with this recent entry about David Bowie (who was apparently persecuted for having long hair).
- FirstShowing.net has the vague trailer for The X-Files: I Want to Believe Trailer.
- The List Universe lists The Top 10 Fantasy Adventure Movies. Ummm….Krull at #6…? As if!
- Check out these handmade Ceramic Ray Guns!
- I’m not sure I’d ever use these Han-Solo-Frozen-in-Carbonite-ice-cubes, but maybe if I was drinking Elshandruu Pica Thundercloud I wouldn’t care.
- Humor: Better Living Through Science Fiction shares Alec Baldwin’s SciFi Pilot Idea.
The List Universe lists The Top 10 Fantasy Adventure Movies. Ummm….Krull at #6…? As if!
Krull…the only instance I’ve encountered where the video game spawned by the movie was more entertaining than the movie itself.
Why is Hartwell’s Year’s Best SF released as a mass market paperback, while the fantasy one is a trade paperback? Can’t they publish the SF one in trade?
Hardcover, Trade and then MMP. Usually in that order.
More data: The Science Fiction Book Club publishes this series in hardback.