SF Tidbits for 8/1/09
- Ridley Scott is set to direct an Alien prequel film. WTF? Sir Ridley said Science Fictions are as dead as Westerns…Don’t get me started.
- Marty Halpern talks about his personal memories of Jack Vance.
- Mark Teppo talks about ideas in his guest-post at Electric Velocipede Blog.
- In response to Joe Abercrombie’s Dungeons & Dragons post, Bill Ward says Thank You, D&D .
- Edward Champion asks: Are Bookstores Being Too Censorious With Author Events?
- Weird Tales will be releasing One-Minute Weird Tales micro-fictions weekly from now through Halloween. [via J.M. McDermott]
- David Langford has posted the new Ansible for August 2009.
- Art:
- Abduzeedo visullally lists 50 Tiny Superheroes Illustrations by Marcio Takara. Cool.
- Steampunk Mickey Mouse. Also cool. [via Blog@Newsarama]
- Spiderman Saves the Day! Yay, Spiderman!
- More Dork Tower vs. The SyFy Channel.
- An Engadget contest to skin the Kindle has resulted in some cool designs — like this one based on Philip K. Dick’s Ubik.
- You want a jetpack? I got your jetpack tight here. Just bring your own water. [via Boing Boing]
- @io9 lists Our Favorite Last Lines From Science Fiction Novels and Science Fiction’s Scariest Priests and Preachers.
- Name that book: They speak German and they carry whips.
Correction: The link you posted for the August Ansible actually leads to the February issue.
Errr…just testing to see who’s awake. You win, Chris. 🙂
Link fixed. (As well as the proper credit for the D&D article. I must have been really tired when I did this. I fear the day when I wake up and see an entire post I have no recollection of doing. Of course, blackout-blogging might provide a whole new interesting experience in itself.)
as you know Bob, both Ridley Scott and Alien are too good to be science fiction, so there’s no contradiction.