SF Tidbits for 6/25/08
- Interviews and Profiles:
- At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Jay Lake, author of Escapement.
- John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Marjorie M. Liu, author of The Iron Hunt.
- Matt Staggs, taking a cue from Jeff VanderMeer’s list of current favorite fantasists, interviews Kate Bernheimer.
- The latest The Future And You podcast, hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, features author/physicist Catherine Asaro (Saga of the Skolian Empire).
- HarperCollins just released the first two books of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in graphic novel form, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. [via Eos Books]
- A first edition of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles sold for $3,900.
- Peter Hodges gives a thoughtful look at Escapism vs. Art in Fiction: “Escapism has always been one of the more attractive aspects of reading, but our recognition of literature as “art” has been slipping lately…”
- Steven Francis Murphy talks about writing novels vs. writing short stories.
- Marginal Revolution offers Survival tips for when you time travel back to 1000 A.D. [via Dolenni Diddorol]
- Well Told Tales shares the new poster the Keanu Reeves version of The Day the Earth Stood Still and wonders about remake overload.
- SciFi Scanner offers some sagely advice on How DC Can Use Superman: The Man of Steel to Catch Up to Marvel.
- io9 lists 12 Books You Should Read at the Beach This Summer which contains both new books and classics.
