SF Tidbits for 1/19/09
- Interviews:
- The SF Site: Michael A. Burstein (I Remember the Future).
- Joseph Mallozzi interviews Stargate Producer Robert C. Cooper
- Award News: An online Hugo ballot is available to voters. (Insert “SF Signal for Best Fanzine” plea here. 🙂 ) [via Science Fiction Awards Watch]
- Over at Fantasy Magazine, Randy Henderson talks about The Future Of Speculative Fiction Magazines: “…how can both print and online magazines stand out and prevail in this crazy wired world of information overload and multimedia mania?”
- Why I Write Science Fiction: An Apology by Alan DeNiro: “If science fiction is a choice that one makes before writing a story, then dismissing it part and parcel simply can’t make sense, especially if particular writers are trying their darndest to reinvigorate the usual, even shopworn tropes-or invent new ones altogether.”
- Sarah Zettel gets her zombie on.
- Brandon Sanderson is auctioning off two different characters to be seen in Memory of Light, his sanctioned continuation of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga.
- Joe Haldeman has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog. (Thanks, Christopher!)
- 1000 novels everyone must read: Over seven days, the Guardian is recommending the best books to read about crime, war, fantasy, travel, science fiction, family and love. (Trivia: Harry Potter makes the list of most stolen books.)
- Blood, Blade & Thruster Magazine is under new ownership. Long live BBT!
- SF Zen of the Day: Robert Silverberg on a Segway. No, really! (Also: That’s SciFi Wire Editor Scott Edelman as the road kill.)
- Soundtrack Geek lists The Top 5 Fantasy/Science Fiction Film Scores of 2008. Finally…some good news for The Day the Earth Stood Still remake…
