SF Tidbits for 11/25/09

Interviews/Profiles

• Confessions of an Aca/Fan interviews Delia Sherman (Interfictions 2).
• Big Hollywood profiles Harlan Ellison.
• ActuSF interviews Kevin J. Anderson.
• Marshall Payne interviews John Kessel.
• Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist interviews Mark Charan Newton.
• Robert Freeman Wexler interviews Alan DeNiro and Daryl Gregory.
• John Scalzi profiles Jeff Carlson.
• SCI FI Wire talks to Rob Zombie about his new animated movie, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.
• Details profile Zoë Saldana, Space Babe.

News

• Odyssey Writing Workshop Announces Its 15th Summer Session.
• The Year’s Best SF and Fantasy, Honorable Mentions, Part 1.
• Amazon Extends Battery Life of Newest Kindle by 85 Percent and Adds Native PDF Reader.
• Read an excerpt from Robert McCammon’s manhunt masterpiece, Mister Slaughter.
• EDGE Forthcoming Releases.
  
• New Solaris deal for Erc Brown.
• Orbit signs Kim Stanley Robinson to multibook deal.
• The first visible-light video of Saturn’s auroras was released by NASA’s JPL.

Articles

• Suvudu on Suvudu is Thankful for…
• Mike Brotherton on False Dichotomies and Science/Science Fiction.
• Nathan Bransford on The Economics of Publishing.
• John Schoenherr’s Dune Artwork (Part 1).

Lists

• The 10 Most Clichéd Character Types in Sci-Fi
• SciFi Wire ranks 18 post-apocalyptic sci-fi survivors
• Steve Boyett’s Books to die for (part 1)

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