SF Tidbits for 9/13/10
- The Agony
Column interviews William
Gibson (podcast).
- Peter Orullian interviews Dave
Wolverton
. - Jonathan Strahan chats with Alisa
Krasnostein and Tansy Rayner Roberts
(podcast). - John Joseph Adams interviews Gary
Braunbeck
.
News
- RIP, Kevin
McCarthy
, star of the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. - Curtain up
for the world’s first Klingon opera
. - Strock
Acquires Fantastic Books
. - Lost
tapes of classic British television found in the US
. [via Kaleidoscope] - James
Cameron: ‘Piranha 3D is bottom of the barrel’
. [via ChinaMiéville
]
Events
Articles
- Kaaron
Warren on Beyond
the Wordcount.
- Ahmed A. Khan on Islamic
Science Fiction Coming Into Light
. - Tehani Wessely on
(Australian) Open
short story markets – revised!
- David Morrell on The Present
and Future of Publishing
. - BBC News on Is our relationship
with books changing?
- Sherwood Smith on Why Do We
Read?
- Juliette Wade on Cheerios
and Space – and Language and Culture?
- Brandon Sanderson on Postmodernism
in Fantasy
. - Joe R. Lansdale on Blood Sport. [via
Crider]
- Andrew Wheeler on Jeff
VanderMeer’s New SF Column in the New York Times
. - Torque Control on Short
Story Club: “A Serpent in the Gears”
. - Benjamin Tate on Dreams.
- Karen Burnham is Burned
Out on Old-School Fantasy
.
More Fun Stuff
- From 2008: 50
Science Fiction & Fantasy Authors SFX readers consider greater than Robert
E. Howard
. - Cool art at Coolvibe: “Spiral Towers” by Tomas Honz,
“Evil Mario” by Kendrick Tu,
and “Sunset Tower” by Eric
Gagnon.
- The
Kevin Flynn Ascii Art Easter Egg
.
50 authors greater than “Robert E Heinlein”….
Should that be “Robert e Howard”? Since Heinlein is number 15…
😉
Of course. Fixed!