Orbit Links for August 29 2008
Welcome to our latest round-up of links to items of interest featuring Orbit authors. Without further ado:
- Recent novels by Iain M Banks and Charles Stross are mentioned in a discussion on the topic of intelligent design in science fiction over at IO9.com.
- Terry Brooks did a very nice thing for a soldier serving in Iraq during a recent signing session.
- Marianne De Pierres has been interviewed by Gary Reynolds for ConceptSciFi.com.
- Charlie Huston‘s sixth ‘Book of All Future Names’ instalment, ‘Hugo Cauldron‘, has been posted.
- N.K. Jemisin wonders: why aren’t there any brown elves?
- Ken MacLeod‘s The Execution Channel has been reviewed over at the Highlander’s Book Reviews blog.
- Ken MacLeod is one of the authors taking part in the latest SFSignal Mind-Meld thought-piece.
- Philip Palmer has a new BBC Radio 3 radioplay on the way, as well as – believe it or not – a sci-fi themed episode of Heartbeat airing this weekend…
- Paul Stotts has reviewed Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross, over at his ‘Blood of the Muse’ blog.
- Lilith Saintcrow features in the 60th episode of the Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing podcast.
- Jeff Somers‘ second Avery Cates novel, The Digital Plague has been reviewed by Simon Appleby over at www.bookgeeks.co.uk.
- Sean Williams explains what it feels like to write and release a Star Wars novelisation.
As always, if you see any online articles, reviews or interviews that feature an Orbit author, please feel free to drop us a line and let us know! We’ll happily name-check your website or blog with a heads-up credit in return (please remember to provide us with a link…)
