SF Tidbits for 8/8/09
- AWARDS NEWS! It’s awards weekend at Anticipation. First up (with more to come!): Sidewise Awards Winners:
- Short Form: Mary Rosenblum for “Sacrifice” from Sideways in Crime
- Long Form: Chris Roberson for The Dragon’s Nine Sons.
- San Antonio launches a Worldcon bid. Facebookers, if you like this idea, support the Facebook group.
- Interviews and Profiles:
- Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews Joe Abercrombie.
- The manakalita manifesto interviews Chris Roberson.
- GalleyCat has video of Lev Grossman talking about Fantasy Goes Mainstream.
- Fangs, Fur, & Fey introduces their latest staff addition: M.K. Hobson!
- Orbit announces the winner Most Awesomely Bad SFF Cover in the Universe contest.
- David Gill responds to the recent bookslut article of Philip K. Dick: “This article made me mad.”
- The latest issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction features an interview with Robert Reed, articles by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Justin Howe; an essay by Daniel M. Kimmel; criticism by Hillary Henson; and reviews by Mark Tiedemann, Flynn Gallagher, and Lois Tilton.
- Real Science: New radar observations have revealed that a near-Earth asteroid is actually three rocks.
- Fantasy Magazine lists 10 Fantasy Movie Moments That Mess With Us.
- Is it surprising that most of the entries in CNet’s list of Top 40 movies not out on Blu-ray are genre films?
