SF Tidbits for 9/3/09

• Interviews & Profiles:
  • Ben Bova joins Stephen Euin Cobb on his podcast, The Future And You.
  • Glenn Reynolds has a video interview with John Scalzi.
  • @Stomping on Yeti: Elizabeth Bear.
  • The Independent ran John Clute’s obituary of Charles N. Brown.
• Lev Grossman Responds to Criticism of his Wall Street Journal essay.
• Robert J. Sawyer on the death of science fiction.
• Jeff VanderMeer reviews Mark von Schlegell’s Mercury Station.
• Cheryl Morgan looks at Women & SF: Some Numbers. [via Enter the Octopus]
• @No Fear of the Future, Jess Nevins talks about The Zeppelin Pulps.
• @The World in the Satin Bag, S.M. Duke continues his essay on Punking the Begeezus out of SF/F.
• Norilana Books is reprinting the classic high fantasy Night’s Master by Tanith Lee, the first book in the Tales from the Flat Earth series.
• Angela Slatter on Editing Tips.
• Julian Card writes about SciFi film in his article Science Fiction Throughout the Ages and Into the Future
• AntipodeanSF, #135 now online. [via Beam Me Up]
• It’s time for another installment of…Fantasy or Football?
• I have a hunch you may do well at Young Frankenstein Ultimate Fan Quiz.
• Lists:
  • @Boxwish: Top 10 SciFi Movie Uniforms. [via The Website at the End of the Universe]
  • @Den of Geek: Top 25 fictional ads in sci-fi movies.
  • Rusty at Best Science Fiction Stories 4 Great Science Fiction Stories That Contain Long Walks.
  • For the artistically inclined, check out Speckyboy Design Magazine’s 50 Imaginative Fantasy Art Tutorials for Photoshop.
  • John Scalzi offers 5 Lessons From the SciFi Summer That Was.
  • Presidia Creative has an incredibly cool gallery of 28 Astounding Illustrations by Michael Dashow. Awesome work.

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