SF Tidbits for 5/19/09

• Interviews and Profiles:
  • Gwenda Bond interviews Greg van Eekhout (Norse Code).
  • Bibliophile Stalker interviews Catherynne M. Valente (Palimpset).
  • Wall Street Journal profiles China Miéville and his new novel The City & The City. [via Locus Online]
• Ellen Datlow posts Ursula K. Le Guin’s Calling Utopia a Utopia in which she calls out the author of a misinformed tribute to J.G. Ballard: “It is shocking to find that an editor at the publishing house that had the wits to publish J.G. Ballard (as well as the Norton Book of Science Fiction) can be so ignorant of what Ballard wrote, or so uninformed about the nature and history of the science-fiction genre, or so unaware of the nature of literature since the 1980′s, that he believes — now, in 2009! — that to say a writer wrote science fiction is to malign or degrade his work.” Go get ‘im! [via Books Worth Reading]
• Author/Editor/Physicist Stanley Schmidt (The Coming Convergence: The Surprising Ways Diverse Technologies Interact to Shape Our World and Change the Future) has an article up at IEET: The Mother of All Sci-Fi Wonders. [via Locus Online]
• Frederik Pohl talks about The Lecture Biz: “Fortunately for my career, there was a lot of funny stuff going on in scientific research if you knew where to look for it.”
• Author Gary Gibson on hard sf. [via Mike Brotherton]
• Rudy Rucker is guest-blogging at BoingBoing. [via Futurismic]
• Joseph Mallozzi reviews Michael A. Burstein’s I Remember the Future
• Says the Guardian: “We should not rue the passing of a bookish golden age that never existed.”
• Gizmodo on Why Asimov’s Laws of Robotics Are Total BS. [via Fantasy Magazine]
• BSCreview Mind Melds with Charles Stross, Sonita Henry, and Jay Tomio about childhood favorites.
• The finalists for the 2009 storySouth Million Writers Award have been announced. To vote for your favorite story, please go to the Million Writers Award website.
• James Van Pelt lists his Top 10 Recommended Science Fiction Books.

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