Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

A day late, but hopefully not a dollar short. Things are a little crazy this week for reasons I’ll go into in more detail tomorrow. But lets get straight to the point of this post, cool sci-fi stuff from around the world wide web.

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• First up this week is Lisa Paitz Spindler who offers us Thirteen…

• Beam Me Up #103 - Amongst other things offers part two of a reading of Always by Karen Joy Fowler
• Cover to Cover #308A - The two Michaels are joined by Tracy Hickman and discuss the final book in the Dragonlance series.
• Escape Pod #157 - A Small Room In Koboldtown, written by Michael Swanwick and read by Cheyenne Wright.

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Well technically I guess this should be number one again since last week it was the Science Fiction Blog Roundup, but it seemed like a pointless distinction. Blog, website, if it’s interesting, I’ll link to it.

• Lost Zombies is a community generated zombie documentary. If you think zombies are cool then this is definitely worth a few minutes of your time. I’m always impressed by the creativity of genre fans and…

Welcome to week four of my podcast roundup for fans of science fiction, fantasy and comics.

Podcast Spotlight - Escape Pod

Escape Pod is the Science Fiction Podcast Magazine and that’s exactly what it offers with each new issue/episode. Unusually for an online magazine, Escape Pods pays authors for the rights to their stories and also uses professional actors to read…

Sometimes it seems like the internet is a very negative place. There’s a new Incredible Hulk trailer out and it’s being greeted by a lot of fan cynicism. So I thought I’d post my Seven Reasons Why The Incredible Hulk Won’t Suck… probably.

• Edward Norton
  Now I’m not claiming that Norton’s record is perfect (he appeared in Death to Smoochy after all), but he’s an excellent actor with an impressive body of…