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- Art:
- Scott Altmann shows off a few samples of stupendous artwork over at Gorilla Artfare.
- At Tor.com, Irene Gallo posts Concept art from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.
- Interviews and Profiles:
- Missions Unknown interviews Damien Broderick.
- Fantasy Magazine interviews Alethea Kontis. [via Apex Blog]
- @The Wertzone: Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Here's a podcast-interview with China Miéville, recorded at BookExpo America. [via the resourceful SFFaudio...have you visited them today?]
- Writing advice:
- Over at Book View Cafe, Vonda N. McIntyre looks at The Pitfalls of Writing SF & Fantasy (Part 1).
- David b. Coe: What We Bring to the Books We Read: The Writer and the Reader (Part 3).
- John Clute reviews Green by Jay Lake. A well-written review, but Clute is no Karen Burnham.
- Online review site Tangent relaunches. Much coolness. [via Kathryn Cramer]
- The Prime Books website gets a facelift.
- James Wallace Harris asks: Is manned spaceflight even on your radar? "And when was the last time you took off from school or work to spend the day watching television of a space mission?"
- StarWars.com honors The Women of Star Wars.
- Yet another gadget I want but don't need: Transformers USB Memory Stick. [via Lauren Davis]
- James at Big Dumb Object enumerates Jetse de Vries' list of Excuses For Not Writing Optimistic Science Fiction.
- In response to the Federal Trade Commission's plans to monitor blogs for false claims and failure to disclose conflicts of interest, Edward Champion clarifies his Editorial Policy: "And if the FTC or anybody else honestly believes that a book, worth perhaps a few dollars at best at the Strand, is going to corrupt my goddam opinion, I urge these c*********s to go f**k themselves at the earliest opportunity. I would sooner cut off my right arm than sell myself out for a pittance." [Asterisks mine.] What he said.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Tuesday June 23, 2009 at 12:05 AM
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"I urge these c*********s to go f**k themselves at the earliest opportunity. I would sooner cut off my right arm than sell myself out for a pittance." [Asterisks mine.] What he said."
Hehehe
Posted by Jim on Tuesday June 23, 2009 at 2:57 AM
Allow me to correct a minor but rather important mistake here.
James at Big Dumb Object summarises my post from the SHINE blog called "Why I Can't Write a Near-Future, Optimistic SF Story, the Excuses" in his post called "Excuses For Writing Optimistic Science Fiction".
He does mention correctly in his post itself that it is about excuses for NOT writing optimistic, near-future SF, but the omission of the word "NOT" in the title implies the opposite.
And now you've taking over the title of his blog post, which may lead people to believe that I am trying to edit the sequel to "Wastelands" (nothing against JJA, BTW: he's a metal maniac just like me. We just have different themes for our projects).
And I'm getting too many dystopian stories already, and I can't tell those writers to try Allen Ashley, as "Catastrophia" has just closed to submissions...
Posted by Jetse on Tuesday June 23, 2009 at 1:19 PM
Ack! You're entirely right, Jetse. I read James's post too fast and missed that it was a summary of your post, which I covered in a previous tidbits post myself! As penance for these circular reference shenanigans, I will spin in my desk chair until I'm too dizzy to blog.
Posted by John D. on Tuesday June 23, 2009 at 2:07 PM