SF Tidbits for 10/30/09

Interviews and Profiles

• If You’re Just Joining Us interviews Cherie Priest, author of Boneshaker. (podcast).
• The Agony Column interviews Eric Simons (podcast).
• The Dragon Page interviews Tom Lloyd (podcast).
• The Publishing Point interviews Cory Doctorow (video).
• Diet Soap Podcast interviews Mark Teppo. (via Marty Halpern)
• Stomping on Yeti interviews Alan de Niro. (via Jedediah Berry)
• The World in a Satin Bag interviews David Marusek.
• Tor.com interviews Ray Bradbury (video).
• John Scalzi profiles Diana Pharaoh Francis.
• Fantasy Book Critic interviews Hank Schwaeble.
• Suite101 profiles James Van Pelt.

News

• Paul Di Filippo reviews Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood: “Mundane SF often comes within kissing distance of cyberpunk…”
• Macmillan US opens up new front in battle over e-book royalty rates. (via Eric Rosenfield)
• James A. Owen’s Here, There Be Dragons is free until 11/9.
• Read the first chapter of Plague Zone, Jeff Carlson’s sequel to Plague Year and Plague War.
• New issue of Abyss & Apex Magazine.
• TTA Press has a preview of Interzone #225.
• Two-Book US Rights deal for British Novelist.
• On October 31, Gryphonwood Press

  and Blade Red Press, will be giving away

  their entire catalog of electronic books for free.

• Zombie Romance Anthology Shambles Towards Readers.
• Mickey Zucker Reichert to write three novels about Isaac Asimov’s Susan Calvin.

Articles

• Brain Me Up on Maybe Science Fiction is Dying, But if So, the Er is as Crowded and Raucous as that Cantina in Star Wars.
• Jason Sanford on Circulation of online SF/F/H magazines. (via Kaolin Fire)
• The Washington Post asks various authors on What Story Scares The Hell Out of You? (via Angela Slatter)
• The World SF News Blog on New Zealand Speculative Fiction Blogging Week.
• Strange Ink has an Alternate Proposal (for NaNoWriMo). (via Ellen Kushner)
• C.L. Anderson on The Writing Life: Reality.
• Ying Compestine On Becoming a Hungry Ghost.
• Edward M. Lerner on Just slightly ahead of our time.
• Gary Gibson on An open letter to those terrified of e-piracy.
• Margaret Ronald on Aural Stories.
• N.K. Jemisin on It’s never “just a story”.
• Charlie Stross on How habitable is the Earth?
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Success Part Four.
• John Scalzi on Stupid Ideas Are Still Stupid Even When Amazon Does Them.

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