SF Tidbits for 5/22/10
- The Functional Nerds interview Lou Anders.
- Gwenda Bond interviews Paolo
Bacigalupi
(Ship Breaker)
News
- You’re
Invited to Neal Barrett Jr.’s Party
! - Director
Robert Rodriguez is making a live-action version of Fire And Ice, the
1983 collaboration between Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta
. - Author
Norman Spinrad is recuperating from surgery
.
Events
- The
Wire
as Social Science Fiction. - The Vader Project: 100 Darth
Vader Helmets re-imagined by today’s most notable artists.
Contests/Giveaways
- Giveaway @The BookBanter Blog: Blockade
Billy
by Stephen King. - Contest @Book View Cafe: Shadow
Conspiracy
Extraordinary Steampunk Photo Contest.
Articles
- Lev Grossman on So
Do You Write Fantasy or Literary Fiction or Oh God What Does That Even Mean
? - Geek Twins on How
to Watch Star Trek: The Original Series and Not Laugh
. - Black Gate‘s John O’Neill offers A
Reader’s Guide to Sword & Sorcery Magazines
. - Shaun Duke on Science
Fiction Criticism: A Necessary “Evil”?
. - Kevin Maher on Kevin
Geeks Out: A look back
. - Lynn Flewelling on The
Complete Nobody’s Guide to Query Letters
. [via Ellen Kushner] - Phyllis Irene Radford on Where
do Ideas Come From?
- @Dark Fiction Review: Negative
Book Reviews Q&A Session
. - RevolutionSF asks Whatever Happened To
Bubo, The Golden Owl?
- SCI FI Wire on Harrison Ford
FINALLY speaks out about Star Wars
.
More Fun
Stuff
- Hero Complex shares video of Harrison
Ford and Mark Hamill on the Today show in 1980
. - SCI FI Wire lists 12 things we
know about Spielberg’s Terra Nova TV series
. - Geeks of Doome list 30
Most Memorable Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Quotes
. - Topless Robot lists 13
Classic Doctor Who Monsters and Villains Due a Comeback
- Booklist lists Top
10 SF/Fantasy: 2010
. [via LocusOnline
] - File under weird: Red Shirt
on the Half Shell
.
I forgot to comment and thank you for the linkage, sir.
So – THANKS! π
~P
@atfmb