News Nibbles: Aug. 03, 2008

Local News:

• Upcoming Local Events: Aug. 03, 2008: The latest local news and events notice has just been posted (08/03/08 @ 14:45)

Science Fiction News: Aug. 03, 2008
Below are just some of the headlines that have been posted recently. Use the link above to access all the details:

• Apex Book Company: Bessie’s Green Thumb * Bestsellers for July * Gratia Placenti - Excerpt
• Clarkesworld Magazine and Wyrm Publishing: August Issue of Clarkesworld Magazine
• io9: Scifi Movies Finally Catching Up to Novels and Going Steampunk [Steampunk]
• Locus Online: Monitor: New Books: last week July * Monitor: Other Magazines, second half July
  
• RevolutionSF: Win Masters of Science Fiction on DVD (Feature)
• Science Fiction Awards Watch: WSFA Small Press Award Finalists * Chesley Nominees Announced
• Science Fiction Buzz: Masters Of Sci Fi DVD Giveaway Contest
• SciFi Scanner: Stacie Ponder - The Future's So Bleak, I Gotta Wear Crazy Eye Makeup
• SF Reviews.Net: Blood and Iron / Elizabeth Bear Night Child / Jes Battis
• SF Signal: Sunday YouTube: Them (Trailer) * Thanks, Matt Staggs! * SF Tidbits for 8/3/08
  
• SF Site: Nexus Graphica: a column by Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams * Pirate Sun by Karl Schroeder
• SFScope: Updates to Previously Published Articles (27 July-2 August 2008)
• StarShipSofa: StarShipSofa Round No 97 Table Kevin J Anderson Jeff Carlson mp3

Selected Blog Updates: Aug. 03, 2008
You can access the blog updates listed below by clicking the link above.

Blogspot, Wordpress, and "other" blogs:

• ...from down in Lucky Town (Alex Bledsoe) * a dark catharsys (Heather S. Ingemar)
  
• Ask Nicola (Nicola Griffith) * Dusk Before the Dawn
• J Alan Erwine's Blog * kelleyeskridge.com * Robert J Sawyer * SF Novelists
  
• The Crotchety Old Fan * "Whatever" (John Scalzi) * Witchy Chicks

MySpace Blogs:

• A. Lee Martinez * Alethea Kontis * bevhale * Brian Knight * Chuck Palahniuk * Cynthia Leitich Smith
• Dusk Before the Dawn * Horror Library Blog-O-Rama * Jack Whyte * JAMES AND DADDY
• Jeff Carlson * Louise Bohmer - Lachesis Publishing * Luna Books * Maelstrom * Marianne De Pierres
• Morpheus Tales NexGen Pulp Magazine * Robert McCammon * Rosemary Jones * Sherrilyn Kenyon
  
• Yasmine Galenorn

Science News & Blog Updates: Aug. 03, 2008
Science News:

• Are We Alone - Next show available August 4, 2008: "Why We Do What We Shoo Be Do Be

Science Blogs:

• Bad Astronomy: Falcon 1, take 3: today at 4:00 Pacific time! * Space X conducts nine engine test
• The Daily Galaxy: MIT Scientists Mimic Plants' Energy Storage System -Discovery to Unleash Solar Revolution