SF Tidbits for 11/28/09
Interviews & Profiles
- Locus Online has interview excerpts with Cory Doctorow (Makers) and Jack Skillingstead (Are You There? And Other Stories).
- @The Dragon Page: J.C. Hutchins (Part 2)
- @The Literary Project: Dan Abnett.
- @Innsmouth Free Press: Malcolm Barber.
News & Articles
- Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s anthology Steampunk Reloaded is open to (reprint) submissions.
- Here’s a book trailer for Aliette De Bodard’s Servant of the Underworld.
- Jo Walton reveiws Seteven Brust’s The Phoenix Guards.
- The website for the game Star Wars: Old Republic has some stellar wallpaper downloads. [via Super Punch]
- An Intersection of Art and Technology in the Early Space Race. [via Big Dumb Object]
- The Website at the End of the Universe on Science fiction recommendations for kids and teenagers.
- Mish Sci Fi Musings on Asimov and Socionomics.
- More pics emerge from Smallville, showing images of Michael Shanks as Hawkman, Britt Irvin as Stargirl, Brent Strait as Doctor Fate and Justin Hartley as Green Arrow. Holy bottom-of-the-hero-barrel, Batman!
Lists
- Techland identifies 2 Game-Changing SF Novels recently read.
- NY Times 100 Notable Books of 2009 includes titles by Lethem, Powers, and Atwood; Janet Maslin’s Top 10 includes Stephen King’s Under the Dome. [via Locus Online]
- BestScienceFictionStories lists 9 Christmas Gift Ideas: Movie Bundles Based on Science Fiction Short Stories.
- Ten Fantasy Meals Mary Robinette Kowal Would Rather Eat Than Thanksgiving Leftovers.
- @SFX: 14 Greatest Format-Breaking SF & Fantasy TV Episodes Ever.
Rusty’s 9 Christmas gift ideas are great! As are the Star Wars Old Republic wallpapers. Wish the game was single player like the previous ones and Dragon Age: Origins rather than a multiplayer online game.