SF Tidbits for 12/7/08
- Suvudu has 5 questions for David Anthony Durham (Acacia).
- StarShipSofa interviews Danie Ware of Forbidden Planet.
- Gabriel McKee on Why John Scalzi is wrong about SF and religion . Well, sorta…
- J.M. McDermott shares why indie bookstores are extremely nifty: “Independent bookstores reflect the inner life of the community that they serve.”
- Listen to Robert J. Sawyer (Rollback) on CBC Radio One’s science program Quirks & Quarks.
- No Fear of the Future has an SFWA update on proposed Google Books/Author’s Guild settlement.
- Rich Horton continues his 2008 summaries of shoprt fiction venues with reviews of Talebones, Jim Baen’s Universe, Abyss & Apex, Lone Star Stories, Ideomancer, Kaleidotrope, Flytrap, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Electric Velocipede.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
- @Afterburn SF: “The Magic Menagerie” By Yvonne Eve Walus.
- @Every Day Fiction: “Death is a Weird Shade of Pink” by M.Sherlock.
- Audio Fiction:
- @Spider on the Web: Spider Robinson reads his story “The Magnificent Conspiracy.“
- @Escape Pod: “Silence” by Rachel Swirsky, read by Ann Leckie.
- @LibriVox:
- Short Science Fiction Collection 007, read by many readers.
- Jimbo by Algernon Blackwood, read by Adrian Praetzellis.
- Remember that idea a had waaaay back about building your own customized anthology? Here’s a site that will do it for you. [via File 770]
- HelpVera is a fundraiser and charity auction with the goal of helping speculative writer and publisher Vera Nazarian save her house from foreclosure.
- Justine Larbalestier shares a video of a marvelous Lego Batman cake.
