SF Tidbits for 6/2/09

• 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• Kathryn Cramer has posted her unpublished 2007 draft essay Gender, Identity, SF, & the Singularity.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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