SF Tidbits for 6/2/09
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Interviews and Profiles:
- @SciFi Scanner: Land of the Lost scribe Larry Niven. I’m pretty sure this is how he introduces himself at parties.
- Joshua Palmatier interviews Diana Pharaoh Francis.
- @Clarkesworld Magazine: Ten Fiction Editors Talk Shop. Features Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Shawna McCarthy, John O’Neill, Cat Rambo, Mike Resnick, Stanley Schmidt, Jason Sizemore, Gordon Van Gelder, Sheila Williams, and Ann VanderMeer.
- @Sly-fi: Robert Charles Wilson. [via Bookninja]
- @Bibliophile Stalker: Terry Bisson.
- @If You’re Just Joining Us: Jon Armstrong interviews Paul Witcover.
- Ubisoft has video of James Cameron talking about Avatar.
- Art:
- At Gorilla Artfare, Ostrander offers some really great zombie illustrations.
- Eric Tan has posted cool posters for Pixar’s Up. [via Super Punch]
- Burnham Bits: SF Signal irregular Karen Burnham has been busy:
- Over at her own review blog, Spiral Galaxy Reviewing Laboratory, she takes on William Hope Hogson’s House on the Borderland.
- Over at Strange Horizons, she talks about how Superheroes are Used Symbolically in Novels. “…why would authors be co-opting these visually striking characters for a completely non-visual medium?”
- David Langford has posted the new Ansible for June 2009.
- John Scalzi reviews Dreams With Sharp Teeth.
- Matt Cheney reviews James Tiptree, Jr.‘s Up the Walls of the World.
- Tim Lebbon guest-blogs at SFX.
- Vandana Singh offers thoughts on writing. [via Torque Control]
- Giveaway: Edward Willett is giving away a fistful of review copies of Terra Insegura, his latest book.
- 7×7 is asking San Francisco writers to submit photos and love letters about their neighborhood.
- Kathryn Cramer has posted her unpublished 2007 draft essay Gender, Identity, SF, & the Singularity.
- Google Kindles Electronic Book War
- Finally an explanation for why cats fail to grasp string theory: “…domestic felines don’t seem to understand cause and effect connections between objects.”
- Lists:
- James Nicoll points us this 1977 (but still cool) The NESFA Core Reading List of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
- Mike Brotherton lists 10 Science Fiction Dream Vacations.
- MentatJack has posted the The New Weird Reading List, taken from Ann & Jeff VanderMeer‘s anthology The New Weird.
- io9 lists Kick-Ass Scenes That Are In Trailers, But Aren’t In The Movies.
- @OnlyGoodMovies: Top 85 Robot Movies. [via SciFi Scanner]
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- SF Tidbits for 1/28/08
- SF Tidbits for 4/18/08
- SF Tidbits for 5/19/08
- SF Tidbits for 2/15/08
- SF Tidbits Part XVII
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