SF Tidbits for 7/16/09

• Interviews & Profiles (many swiped…er, borrowed from Bibliophile Stalker):
  • The New York Times profiles Jack Vance, The Genre Artist.
  • Rick Kleffel podcast-interviews Jeremy Lassen of Night Shade Books.
  • Electric Velocipede interviews Jason Erik Lundberg.
  • Randolph Carter interviews Melinda Snodgrass.
  • Nick Gevers interviews Charles Stross.
  • Patrick at Stomping on Yeti interviews one of tomorrow’s genre stars: Ted Kosmatka
• Neil Gaiman talks about Batman on NPR.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch has an essay on Audible.com about reading.
• Kathryn Cramer shows off the cool cover of the forthcoming Year’s Best Fantasy 9 which she co-edited with David G. Hartwell.
• Alexander Jablokov on Hard SF and Hyperrealism: “…hard SF was socialist realism kidnapped by fairies in babyhood.”
• William Shunn is guest-blogging at Electric Velocipede.
• Star Trek‘s Nichelle Nichols is to star in new SF web series called The Cabonauts. [via Pop Culture Shock]
• Forbidden Planet has opened up their website to customer reviews.
• The World in the Satin Bag lists Top 10 Cats in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
• John C. Wright dispenses 10 Rules on How To Be a Writer.

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3. SF Tidbits for 5/14/08
4. SF Tidbits for 4/21/08
5. SF Tidbits for 2/22/08

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