SF Tidbits for 4/14/09
- At Tor.com, John Joseph profiles Close Encounters by Katherine Allred.
- The Daily Page has a conversation with physicist Michio Kaku, author of Physics of the Impossible.
- In his latest Light On Light Through podcast, author Paul Levinson looks at the “love/hate mutually catalytic relationship” of authors and critics.
- S.M. Duke at The World in the Satin Bag wants your suggestion for Science Fiction Books For Non-Readers.
- Art Links:
- Cover Pron: Glen Orbik’s cover for The Evil in Pemberley House by Philip Jose Farmer and Win Scott Eckert.
- Tor.com gives us a few jaw-dropping examples of concept art by Justin Yun.
- Over at Gorilla Artfare, Aviv Or shares his take on Leeloo from The Fifth Element.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- @Subterranean Online:
- “Under the Honey” by Liz Williams.
- “A Tulip for Lucretius” by Ken MacLeod.
- @Strange Horizons: “The Man Who Lost the Sea” by Theodore Sturgeon. (1959)
- @Fantasy Magazine: “Shades of White and Road” by Camille Alexa.
- @Kat and Mouse: “Easy Money – Part Fifteen” by Abner Senires.
- @Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
- “Driftwood” Marie Brennan.
- “Stormchaser, Stormshaper” Erin Hoffman
- @Manybooks:
- “Beyond Lies the Wub” by Philip K. Dick. (1952)
- Beautiful Red by M. Darusha Wehm (2007).
- “Rex Ex Machina” by Frederic Max. (1954)
- “Song in a Minor Key” by Catherine Lucile Moore. (1957)
- “Farewell to the Master” by Harry Bates. (1940)
- “The Body-Snatcher” by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Audio Fiction @ Fantasy Magazine: “Shades of White and Road” by Camille Alexa, read by Mark Bukovec.
- @Subterranean Online:
- The Cinematics from The Force Unleashed look nice. Anyone play this?
- Concatenation‘s summer posting is up.
- PhD Comic: If TV Science was more like REAL Science. [via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories]
- EVENT: Richard Lupoff and Peter S. Beagle headline the next SF in SF on April 18th.
- GOOD CAUSE: Portions of the sale of Steve N. Lee’s book What If… will be donated to the Save the Children charity.
- Lists:
- Star Wars and Metropolis make TCM’s Most Influential Classic Movies. [via Rope of Silicon]
- Felix Gilman lists 7 Reasons Why You Should Read Gears of the City.
- BooksFairy lists The Best Places to Download Free Science Fiction Books.
