SF Tidbits for 5/24/08
- Interviews:
- Fantasybookspot interviews Charlie Huston, who talks about the latest Joe Pitt Casebooks novel, Every Last Drop. I’m really looking forward to this one as this is a really entertaining series.
- Joe Malozzi’s book club features the 2nd part of an interview with Joe Abercrombie, author of The First Law series.
- Peter Hodges has posted the 2nd part of an interview with S.M. Stirling, author of In the Courts of the Crimson Kings.
- Fantasy Book Critic interviews Greg Keyes, author of The Born Queen.
- Eos is letting you Ask Neal Stephenson about Anathem, his forthcoming novel that explores issues of science and humanity and is due in September. Selected answers received by May 26th will be answered by Neal in an online video. [via Locus Online]
- Free Audio Fiction: James Patrick Kelly has begun podcasting “The Ice Is Singing“.
- Free Books Sample: Eos has posted online the first two chapters of Vicki Pettersson’s new book, The Touch of Twilight.
- Tor Books has a MySpace video channel.
- I Am Legend, Superman II, Dawn of the Dead and Blade Runner make Cracked‘s list of 5 Awesome Movies Ruined By Last-Minute Changes.
- New York Magazine looks at the early work of Philip K. Dick; specifically his 1958 novel In Milton Lumky Territory: “…you can’t appreciate how profoundly paranoid and surreal Philip K. Dick’s novels became until you read how square they once were.”
- Entertainment Weekly tells us that
- Tom Hanks is a huge fan of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey at an event where special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull revealed some of the pioneering methods they used 40 years ago.
- Artist Louie Mantia offers a bunch of cool desktop wallpapers, some of which feature genre themes (Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, etc.) [via Smashing Magazine]
- I’m not usually one to wear T-shirts with anything on them, but these retro-scifi T-shirts look freakin’ cool. [via The Samurai Gunslinger via Pharyngula]
