SF Tidbits for 1/28/09
- Interviews and Profiles:
- Mike Brotherton interviews Eric Nylund (Mortal Coils).
- John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Carrie Vaughn, author of Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
- Jeff Somers, author of (The Electric Church, The Digital Plague and the forthcoming The Eternal Prison) is Twittering a short story, a few lines at a time.[via Orbit]
- @Strange Horizons: part two of “The Shangri-La Affair” by Lavie Tidhar
- @Manybooks: “Light-Years Ahead of His Time” by Joseph Devon.
- @Space Westerns: “The Reckoning” by John P. Wilson.
- @Mindflights: “Marionettes” by Mike Simon.
- @Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire part four of “Easy Money” by Abner Senires.
- @Polu Texni: part two of “Very Truly Yours” by Seth Gordon.
- AntipodeanSF has its 128th issue out with fiction by Jill Smith, Julie Cohen Wornan, Kirstyn McDermott, Matthew Sanborn Smith, Angie Smibert, Shaun A. Saunders, Richard Thorne, Mark Farrugia, Ashley Hibbert, and Felicity Dowker. [via Beam Me Up]
- Audio Fiction:
- @Beam Me Up: the conclusion of “People of Sand and Slag” by Paolo Bacigalupi, read by Paul Cole and “They’re Made out of Meat!” by Terry Bisson, read by Ron Huber.
- @Pseudopod: “The Ashen Thing” by Paul Mannering, read by Ben Phillips.
- @Mister Ron’s Basement: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by F. Scott Fitzgerald story.
- @The Cthulhu Podcast: “The Mask” by Roberts W Chambers, read by Peter Yearsley.
- Scott Sigler has chapter eight of Contagious.
- Short fiction venue Realms of Fantasy is shutting down after its April 2009 issue. See responses from Ben Peek, Cherie Priest, Irene Gallo, Jim van Pelt, Liz Williams, Robert J. Sawyer, and Jonathan Strahan.
- Cover Pr0n:
- Deathtroopers by Joe Schreiber
- Bob Eggleton has posted the cover art for The Other in the Mirror, the forthcoming Philip José Farmer omnibus collecting the novels Fire and the Night, Jesus on Mars, and Night of Light due out from Subterranean Press. [via Christopher Paul Carey, who tells us there’s also a new Wold Newton novel on the way]
- Viz Media is launching the imprint Hhaikasoru, helmed by sf author Nick Mamatas, to publish contemporary Japanese science fiction novels in English.
- Crooked Timber on Why you should read Charles Stross: “Science fiction is, more than anything, a literature of ideas. And Charles Stross has more ideas than is probably healthy for one man.”
- Lists:
- S.M. Duke wants your input on a Steampunk Reading List he found.
- Popular Mechanics lists 20 Must-Have Blu-ray HD Epics.
- @SciFi Scanner: The 10 Worst Superhero Actors of all Time and Great Flicks Based on Fake Games.
