SF Tidbits for 11/27/09

Interviews/Profiles

• Eric Rosenfield interviews Jeff VanderMeer (Finch).
• Command Line Podcast interviews Cory Doctorow (Makers).

News

• Stephen King Announces sequel to The Shining, but warns fans “don’t hold your breath”. [via Locus Online]
• Black Matrix Publishing is launching four magazines full of action, adventure, romance and suspense: Encounters (Contemporary or dark fantasy,scifi, horror and stories with a paranormal twist), Realms (traditional fantasy), Night Chills (creature-oriented horror), and Outer Reaches (stories of high adventure in the deepest reaches of space). [via Lou Antonelli]
• Patrick Rothfuss details the  Worldbuilders fundraiser.

Articles & Stuff

• Twelfth Planet Press On publicity and promotion.
• Rochita Loenen-Ruiz on Five months later, I’m still thinking of Clarion West.
• New Scientist on How Our Brains Learned to Read. (via Booksquare)
• The Guardian on Why does Mandelson favour the Analogue Economy over the Digital?
• The German website Fantasy-Atlas.org has dozens of maps from various genre books. [via Marooned]
• Here’s a trailer for Hardcore by Andy Remic.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Postponing Your Dreams.

Lists

• Reasons why the list “100 Reasons Star Trek XI Sucked” Sucked.
• Lev Grossman’s 6 greatest fantasy books of all time. [via John Anealio]

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