SF Tidbits for 7/24/08
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Greg Egan
- Interview with David Schwartz, author of Superpowers.
- Randy Nakamura: Steampunk’d, or Humbug by Design. (Thanks, John!)
- Free audio fiction at the latest Starship Sofa!
- Hal Duncan offers “Notes on Strange Fiction: Magic“.
- Seattle attempting to lure WorldCon with “green” appeal.
- The Dark Knight, the War on Terror, and Science Fiction’s Moral Authority.
- What’s in the latest issue of Weird Tales?
- How publishers spot the next big sellers.
- Doctor donates classic sci fi collection to university library.
- Christopher Priest’s Top 10 Slipstream Books.
- China Mieville’s Top 10 Weird Fiction Books.
- Sitting down for writing tips with Neil Gaiman.
- Here’s Ellen Datlow’s Introduction to the Nebula Awards Showcase 2009
- John Scalzi: “Just in case you thought hand-wringing over science fiction was an English language thing“.
- A fantasy version of Godwin’s Law.
- Win a copy of Terry Brooks’ The Genesis of Shannara.
- The life-cycle of a trope: Sci Fi’s tragedy of the commons?
- Bruce Sterling to keynote at Austin GDC.
- Jeremiah Tolbert asks, “What are some of your favorite bad 80’s SF films?”
- Specimen number six from Jeffrey Thomas.
- Cool art at Avalanche Software Art Blog.
- Newsvine lists SciFi books that ought to be movies
- David Drake lists joke book covers. [via TexasBestGrok]
- The Evangelical Outpost lists 50 Favorite Works of Imaginative Literature
- Cinemaroll lists 5 Great Science Fiction Villains
- Paolo Bacigalupi: How to write a short story – by throwing away a short story
- Topless Robot lists The Top 10 Misfired Sci-Fi TV Shows of the ’90s