SF Tidbits for 10/29/09

By Charles Tan | Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 12:08 am

Interviews and Profiles

Writer’s Digest interviews Cory Doctorow (Makers).
The Agony Column interviews Jeremy Lassen.
The Sci-Fi Guys Book Review interviews James Enge. (via Pyr Books)
OF Blog of the Fallen interviews David Anthony Durham (part 1).
Suvudu interviews Tony Shasteen.
Dead Robots’ Society interviews Scott Sigler.
Jenni Hill interviews Gail Z. Martin.
Ghost in the Machine interviews Stephen Euin Cobb and CJ Henderson.

News

Lovecraft Unbound Launch NYC October 27, 2009 photos by Ellen Datlow.
Cory Doctorow’s Makers has a website.
15 Days of Deverry Party Begins Today! (via DAW Books)
Few options for Canadian ebook lovers. (via Fabio Fernandes)
Prolific dead-author alert: Isaac Asimov estate announces new ‘I, Robot’ trilogy. (via Fabio Fernandes)
J.R.R. Tolkien earns $50 million a year while still dead. (via Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
2010 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. (via Maria Schneider)
Artist Don Ivan Punchatz Dies.
St. Martin’s press is holding a book sweepstakes where winners receive a free copy of Born
of Fire by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pyr acquires
Mark Hodder’s Burton & Swinburne in The Strange Affair of Spring
Heeled Jack, a steampunk tale.

Articles

Me and My Big Mouth on A Wicked Idea. (via Andrew Wheeler)
Publisher’s Weekly on What Do Teens Want? (via Greg van Eekhout)
Gail Z. Martin on The Day After Tomorrow.
Nadia Bulkin on In defense of english class, a.k.a. but what is the point?
Adrienne Martini on Where are the WOACAs?
io9 on Lovecraft 101: Get To Know The Master of Scifi-Horror.
GD Falksen on The Steampunk Cold War, Part One: The Pax Europaea, or “Tommy’s got my bank account, Ivan’s got the bomb” and Steampunk Blogging, aka Tit-Tat.
Jaymee Goh on With this Steam-Powered Prosthetic Arm, I Could Be As Strong as… A Normal Person.
Jeff & Ann VanderMeer on Can Dirigibles Slouch Along? Can They Saunter?
Lynne Patrick on Cover Story.
Pimp My Novel on Walmart.com: Part Deux.

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