SF Tidbits for 4/22/09
- Interviews & Profiles:
- LA Times profiles sf legend Robert Silverberg.
- Mary Robinette Kowal interviews Felix Gilman . [via Charles Tan]
- @Omnivoracious: Melissa Marr.
- @Whatever: Michael Z. Williamson.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- Issue five of Steampunk Magazine is available for free PDF download, featuring fiction and other steampunk.
- @Kat and Mouse: Part Sixteen of “Easy Money” by Abner Senires.
- Audio Fiction:
- 9 Audio Book Short Stories at Barnes & Noble (includes Joe hill and Kurt Vonnegut).
- @StarShipSofa: “Wings” by James Lovegrove.
- @Beam Me Up: “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang, read by Ray Sizemore.
- @PodCastle: “Return of the Warrior” by Laird Long, read by Alasdair Stuart
- @Pseudopod: “Come to My Arms, My Beamish Boy” by Douglas F. Warrick, read by Phil Rossi.
- @Escape Pod:
- “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” by Kij Johnson, read by Diane Severson.
- “Chump Change” by Pete Butler, read by Jake Squid.
- John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There? (basis for the scifi film The Thing) is now back in print, also in MP3.
- A 1998 article from The New York Review of Science Fiction: “Racism and Science Fiction” by Samuel R. Delany: “Racism for me has always appeared to be first and foremost a system, largely supported by material and economic conditions at work in a field of social traditions.” [via Elizabeth Bear]
- Cover Pr0n: Pyr Books shows off Stephan Martiniere’s wonderful cover for Kay Kenyon’s forthcoming Prince of Storms, the final volume in Kay Kenyon’s The Entire and the Rose.
- George R.R. Martin is done with the Dabel Brothers. But those who ordered calendars, they will be mailed. [via Rob’s Blog o’ Stuff]
- W.W. Norton is planning to publish The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard in September. [via SFScope]
- SF Scope’s Ian Randal Strock joins Warren Lapine’s new sf/f imprint Fantastic Books as an acquisition editor and announces first purchase: Fantastic Texas, a Texas-themed reprint collection by Lou Antonelli featuring a dozen stories, with an introduction by Howard Waldrop.
- io9 asks: Is “Sense Of Wonder” Just A Code For Returning To Childhood? I say nope.
- John C. Wright on C.S. Lewis, H.G. Wells and Arthur C. Clarke.
- At the Wall Street Journal, Author Steven Johnson asks” How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write? as he outlines a future with more books, more distractions — and the end of reading alone. [via Cliff Pickover]
- Bookswim: Netflix for books? [via CNET]
- Paul McAuley reviews the new Star Trek: “But despite the cliches and Bad Science, there’s a lot more wit and sass in this space operatic reboot than in most of its too-often ponderous predecessors, and you’re left with a sense that the franchise is ready to head off into new and unexpected directions.” [via Locus Online]
- Sony has launched a Terminator Twitter game in which you can make contact with the resistance. [via SFX]
- Gallery: The Worst Homemade Star Wars Costumes.
- The film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is being filmed as two movies.
- Real Science:
- The lightest exoplanet yet discovered — only about twice the mass of Earth — has been detected, astronomers announced today. In other news, Pluto is still screwed.
- Let’s Fantasize: Could You Be Batman?
- Cassini’s continued mission.
- They can send a man to the moon but they can’t — oh, wait, they HAVE created Bionic penguins! [via Michael A. Burstein]
- Lists:
- Publishers Weekly lists 12 Steps to Better Book Publishing.
- Top 5 Cool Things In Space.
