SF Tidbits for 12/19/08
- Interviews and profiles:
- @Omnivoracious: Holly Phillips (The Engine’s Child).
- @SciFi Wire: Tom Lloyd (The Stormcaller).
- John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Nick Stone, author of King of Swords.
- @Cool Sci-Fi: 10 Questions for Patrick G. Cox (Out Of Time).
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
- @The Author’s Website: Scales by Anthony G. Williams.
- @Space Westerns:
- “Le Grand Bazar” by Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon.
- “Droidtown Blues” by Camille Alexa.
- @Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
- “Dunasby, Fire and Ice” by Rebecca Lyn Shelley.
- “The Dragon’s Child” by J. Kathleen Cheney.
- @No Fear of the Future: Memory (part 29) by Jayme Lynn Blaschke.
- @BookSpot Central: An excerpt from Evil Ways by Justin Gustainis.
- Audio Fiction:
- Zombie Astronaut has The Spaceship and Space Hacks.
- @LibriVox: In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne, read by many readers.
- @Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “The Last Devil” by Sarah L. Edwards.
- Over at Tor.com, Jane Lindskold talks about her book covers.
- Chris Roberson‘s future Warhammer 40K book is…Sons of Dorn.
- Why Isn’t Greg Egan A Superstar?
- Dark Roasted Blend looks at Jack Williamson’s Legion of Space series and Theodore Sturgeon’s More Than Human.
- Pyr Editor Lou Anders lists his 2008 favorites.
- Starship Sofa has selected the finalists for The Sofanauts (The StarShipSofa Awards).
- PS Publishing has a slew of 10th anniversary special deals going on now.
- EVENT: Paul Cornell will be signing at Captain Britain and MI:13 Secret Invasion at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, on Thursday 15th January 6 – 7pm.
- The SciFi Channel has a new Game Center, where you could play Eureka Sky Writer, Star Gem, Three Card Cylon and Name That Horrible Television Monster Movie. (OK, I’m kidding about that last one, but the others are real.)
- Lists:
- @Not a Planet Anymore: Top 5 SF Remakes.
- @SpoutBlog:
- @LA Weekly: The Top 5 Space Cowboys from TV and Film.
Thanks for the link, John!