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SF Tidbits for 11/21/09
SF Signal — Interviews & Profiles @SFX: Gary Russell, director of the new Doctor Who animated adventure Dreamland. @Bookgasm: J.C. Hutchins (7th Son: Descent). @Innsmouth Free Press: Joe Brusha (Neverland). News In his own words: Michael Moorcock is writing the a new Doctor Who novel. SFWA Statement on Harlequin's vanity press imprint. @Charity Buzz: You can bid now for a chance to enjoy ...

The Link Hand of God
Torque Control — ... JG Ballard (the comments on the latter are … numerous); and at strange Horizons, a review of The Magicians. (And for those who haven’t seen, Excessive Candour has been cancelled, and as of next year Clute will be writing a regular column for Strange Horizons.) Abigail Nussbaum on The Magicians, and on The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Hunger Games. Michael Moorcock on writing a Doctor Who novel; see also Mark Charan Newton’s interview of Dan ...

News: Moorcock's Foot
News: This feed has moved! — It seems that the news (and subsequent over the top reaction) of Michael Moorcock writing a Doctor Who novel for BBC Books all stems from the writer's bad foot... Writing in the Guardian recently , Moorcock was given the chance to put down his feelings about popular sci fi, his love of some classic Doctor Who and his subsequent rediscovery of the show since 2005. When I was first offered the chance to write an original Doctor Who novel I hesitated. I felt I'd had enough fun and should settle down to the autobiographical stuff I'd mapped out for the next year or two. Then I ...

November Books 20) The Swoop, or How Clarence Saved England, by P.G. Wodehouse
From the Heart of Europe — I saw a reference to this in Michael Moorcock's article about writing a Doctor Who book and got it from Project Gutenberg. It is a hundred years old this year, having been published on early 1909. Moorcock describes this as a "funny, futuristic" book, but it is really a parody of the invasion scare sub-genre. I have read a few other books in that genre - The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, When William Came by Saki, and a collection edited by I.F. Clarke. Moorcock is, however, correct to describe it as funny, despite the ...

The Week In Geek...
HeroPress — ... (1) Moorcock's Who: The great author Michael Moorcock writes an article in The Guardian about his forthcoming original Doctor Who novel... but doesn't give anything away. ...

Michael Moorcock + Doctor Who = Awesome (News)
RevolutionSF — ... . Moorcock wrote about how much he likes Doctor Who . He said, "both comedy and SF depend on compression and exaggeration and are very often entertaining when combined." He said the modern-day Who people get it. But apparently some folks got a yellowjacket in their underpants about it, so Moorcock ...