SF Tidbits for 5/19/10
- Radio New
Zealand interviews Margo
Lanagan.
- The Dragon Page interviews Mike
Resnick
(podcast). - Morning Media Menu interviews Cory
Doctorow
(podcast). - Book Expo America interviews Cory
Doctorow
(podcast). - John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Greg
van Eekhout
. - Marshall Payne interviews Nancy
Kress
.
News
- Sad news: A
Fond Farewell to Ripley, the Borderlands Cat
. - This week at UC Irvine, Gregory Benford, James Blaylock, Jeff Hicks, Rob
Latham, and Tim Powers will Orange
County’s influence on Philip K. Dick.
- CBS to
air Sitcom Bleep My Dad Says which will feature William Shatner reading
from a Twitter account
.
Articles
- Deborah
J. Ross on The
Magic Notebook.
- Juliette Wade on Psychic
links and channels of communication
. - Adele Harrison on Bringing
Magic into the Present
. - Nathan Bransford on Every
Writer Gets Rejected
. - Pimp My Novel on Some
Things I Might Know About Query Letters
. - Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku On
the Road with Sci Fi Science
. - Tristan Stewart-Robertson says Making
time for sci-fi in class can open a whole new dimension
. - The Website of Unknowing asks: Is
there such a thing as too many books?
? [via Diversand Sundry
] - Cory Doctorow on Saying
information wants to be free does more harm than good
. - Robert J. Sawyer on the cancellation of Flashforward.
Other Fun Stuff
- Chris Roberson shares More
iZombie fan art
. - SciFiNow lists Five
sci-fi music covers that amaze
. - AbeBooks lists 20
Villainous Animals in Fiction
. [via BillCrider’s Pop Culture Magazine
] - Topless Robot lists 10
Futuristic Technologies We Wish Existed Right Now
. - SCI FI Wire lists 13 sci-fi
movie and TV deaths that made us go “WTF?”
and 5 reasons whywe’re stoked Keanu’s back in sci-fi
. - Boba
Fett: He’s always watching us, you just never see him
. - The Dune art
project
. [via SuperPunch
]