SF Tidbits for 8/6/09
- L. Jagi Lamplighter reveals how her first novel, Prospero Lost, came to print. What a gorgeous cover.
- Hot on the heels of the news that Jim Baen’s Universe is closing, comes news that Farrago’s Wainscot will close to submissions permanently on September 1, 2009.
- Meanwhile, Strange Horizons is holding their 2009 Fund Drive.
- The Nebula Awards website interviews Mary E. Pearson (The Adoration of Jenna Fox).
- Patrick at Stomping on Yeti continues his profiles of Tomorrow’s Big Genre Stars, this time with Benjamin Rosenbaum.
- Angry Robot announces a Moxyland Short Story Competition. Details to follow soon…
- Orbit’s One Dollar Ebook selection of the month is Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow.
- The Plains of Titan are to be named after the Dune novels.
- TV’s Batman, Adam West, will put his cape back on (so to speak) when he will voice Bruce Wayne’s father Thomas in an upcoming episode of Brave and the Bold.
- Chris Howard has some tips on making Do-It-Yourself Steampunk Maps.
- Over at the Guardian, children’s writer Linda Buckley-Archer lists The top 10 time-travelling stories.
- Can you guess the Star Wars-related item being talked about here before you click on the link?
- Call me silly, but I like the idea of poking Darth Vader in the face to get an extra 11 minutes of sleep. Sometimes I feel like an Alliance Rebel in the morning…
- “Lick me, Obi Wan Kenobi…you’re my only hope!”
