SF Tidbits for 8/4/09
Interviews & Profiles: @Bibliophile Stalker: Artist John Picacio, who beautifully illustrated the covers of Mark Chadbourn’s Age of Misrule trilogy. @Falcata Times: Chris Roberson (Dawn Of War...
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The controversy over Justine Larbalestier’s cover for Liar results in a new cover. [via Bibliophile Stalker] RainTaxi interviews Catherynne M. Valente. Fantasy Book Critic interviews: Jennifer Fallon....
View ArticleSF 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...
View ArticleSF Tidbits for 8/20/09
Slate finds the graphic novel version of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 worrisome. [via Locus Online] Interviews & Profiles [some of these via Bibliophile Stalker]: Mur Lafferty interviews Cory...
View ArticleSF Tidbits for 8/29/09
The Library of America is selling the boxed set of The Philip K. Dick Collection edited by Jonathan Lethem. It contains 13 novels in 3 volumes. Episode #22 of Sofanauts features Amy H. Sturgis, Damien...
View ArticleSF Tidbits for 8/31/09
Scott Lynch (The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies) is serializing a new planetary romance called Queen of the Iron Sands. There is no cost, but the author asks for donations. Chapter...
View ArticleSF Tidbits for 9/18/09
Interviews and Profiles: Here’s a video interview with Charles Coleman Finlay (The Patriot Witch) @Rescued By Nerds: Jeff Somers (The Eternal Prison). @Fantasy Magazine: Nancy Kress. BLDGBLOG...
View ArticleSF Tidbits for 9/29/09
Interviews & Profiles: Self-Publishing Review interviews Tessa Dick, the widow of Philip K. Dick, who has reworked the novel he was working on at the time of his death in 1982: The Owl in...
View ArticleSF Tidbits for 10/1/09
Codex Pictures (the folks who brought you Bionicle DVD movies) announced making a CG DVD movie based on Warhammer 40,000 called Ultramarines, a “70-minute sci-fi thriller that will use CGI and...
View ArticleSF Tidbits for 10/5/09
Here’s Total Dick-Head‘s First Look At Radio Free Albemuth – The Movie. At Asimov’s, Mary Robinette Kowal interviews Dr. Michio Kaku. [via Bibliophile Stalker] Scott Westerfeld has posted Leviathan...
View ArticleUncanny Robots
It’s really remarkable and exciting to learn about the research that’s happening on robots and artificial intelligence these days. It doesn’t get as much press as I feel it should, except when it...
View ArticleEchoes Returning Diverse Shapes of Reality: Some Resonances in “Alternate...
“We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.” - Philip K. Dick,The...
View ArticleBBC on The Predictions of Philip K. Dick
The BBC recently ran an article on the preditions of Philip K. Dick. I not only point this out because it’s of interest to science fiction fans, but also because yours truly was quoted in it. Among the...
View ArticleAdapting Philip K. Dick
Next month, Columbia Pictures will be releasing a remake of 1990′s Total Recall, originally adapted from a story by Philip K. Dick, and author who is incredibly popular in Hollywood. Over on the Kirkus...
View ArticleVIDEO: Rudy Rucker is Haunted by Philip K. Dick
Enjoy this wonderful video of mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction author Rudy Rucker speaking at the Philip K. Dick Festival in San Francisco… [via Paul Di Filippo]...
View ArticlePhilip K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” Being Adapted by the Syfy Channel
According to Variety, the Syfy channel is adapting Philip K. Dick’s classic alternate history novel The Man in the High Castle into a four-part miniseries. Ridley Scott is attached as Executive...
View ArticleAn Interview with John Alan Simon, Writer/Director of Philip K. Dick Film...
After great reviews and award-winning festival run – culminating with Lincoln Center prestigious Indie Night Series on June 4, Radio Free Albemuth is Kickstarting its theatrical release. Just like...
View ArticleVIDEO: Jonathan Lethem and Kim Stanley Robinson on the Influence of Philip K....
Here’s an interesting video from the University of California San Diego, presented by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and the Helen Edison Lecture Series… Jonathan Lethem (the series...
View ArticleWatch Philip K. Dick Talk About the State of Science Fiction in 1977
Amazing Stories unearthed this video from 1977 featuring Philip K. Dick discussing science fiction and its lowly place in literature… No related posts.
View ArticleTable of Contents: THE COLLECTED STORIES OF PHILIP K. DICK VOLUME FIVE: WE...
Subterranean has posted the table of contents for the upcoming collection The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Five: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale which features a dust jacket by Bill...
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