SF Tidbits for 5/28/09
- Interviews & Profiles:
- Fantasy Book Critic interviews James Enge (Blood of Ambrose): “I believe that the greatest danger to genre fiction nowadays is not the denial of respect from some notional group of literary tastemakers but the very real likelihood that sf/f may become respectable.” Links to Enge’s free online fiction included at no extra charge.a
- @Joseph Mallozzi’s blog, Michael A. Burstein (I Remember the Future) answers reader questions.
- Borders Newsletter features a video interview of Joe Abercrombie (Best Served Cold) and an excerpt from Monster by A. Lee Martinez.
- Mary Rosenblum if featured in Oregon Live‘s PDX Green column: “[Rosenblum] writes science fiction because it’s hard for people to change how they have always done things, including how they live in relation to the environment.”
- @Booklist Online: T.A. Barron.
- Tor.com has posted Part 2 of an interview with Robert Charles Wilson.
- Mur Lafferty interviews J.C. Hutchins.
- The Sofanauts No 6 features Jeremy Tolbert, Paul Raven Graham, and Amy H Sturgis.
- Advance Cover Pr0n: Here’s 1,000 words on why I personally love the artwork of John Picacio. (See the story behind this upcoming Asimov’s cover image here.)
- An interesting thread at the Asimov’s Forum: SF Masterpieces Ruined by the Ending.
- Gabriel McKee talks about The complex religious landscape of Robert Charles Wilson’s Julian Comstock.
- Science fiction conventioneer files bankruptcy, and pisses off Edward James Olmos to boot: “Battlestar Galactica star Edward James Olmos publicly lambasted Senter during an interview at last year’s DragonCon convention in Atlanta and vowed to work with the New Hampshire attorney general’s office ‘to bring this bastard down.'” Get ‘im, Adama!
- Free Fiction: Web Fiction Guide offers free online novels, story collections, and reviews. [via Alan Baxter, who is giving away some free fiction of his own…in the form of a signed copy of his book Realm Shift]
- Real Science: Black holes are voracious space-pigs – Astronomers are getting a close-up look at a cosmic eating machine: a spinning black hole that devours the mass equivalent of two Earths per hour, verging on the limit of its feeding ability. :
- Movie Stinger website shows which movies have post-credits extra scenes! [via SFXmagazine]
- Weird Ralph maintains a list of free online games, including Free Online Space/Sci-Fi Games.
- Neatorama made me shamble over to Mental Floss’ Quiz of the Living Dead
- Lists:
- @AMC:
- A list for writers: S. Andrew Swann (Prophets) lists The 10 Commandments for writers who blog.
- @Baltimore Examiner: The 10 Best Star Wars Video Games. What, no vector graphics games from the 80’s? Pfft! [via TheForce.Net]
- Convention Fans lists The Top 20 Sexy Male Science Fiction Costumes. I’m not sure Dr. Manhattan’s birthday suit actually qualifies as a costume…
- @Manolith: 18 Vintage Sci Fi Posters: Robots, Aliens, Monsters and Hot Women.
- OnlyGoodMovies lists Top 85 Robot Movies
