SF Tidbits for 12/23/09

Interviews/Profiles

• SMD interviews Brian Evenson.
• Daily KOS gets the latest from Peter Watts. [via Locus Online]
• The Agony Column interviews Alyx Dellamonica (podcast).
• SciFiNow interviews Neil Gaiman. (via SFCrowsnest)
• Down the Tubes interviews Paul Cornell.
• Frederik Pohl blogs about Doc “Skylark: Smith.

News

• James Cameron Plans Avatar Trilogy.
  
• Big book giveaway for the holidays over on Magical Words.
• Starfarers, Book 1 of Vonda N. McIntyre’s The Starfarers Quartet, is now available in ebook form.
  

Articles

• Jeff VanderMeer on Finch and Black Hawk Down: Translating Technique from Movies to Fiction.
• Ellen Datlow on A Cthulhu Christmas, some gift suggestions–part three.
• Unreality Magazine on Fifteen Forgotten Works of Stephen King. (via Matt Staggs)
• Mike Brotherton on Communicating Science: Know your Audience!
• Rachelle Gardner on Always Working, Even at the Gym.
• Juliette Wade on Two Non-English Languages.
• Janice Hardy on Your Book Just Came Out! Now What?
• Patrick Lee on How do you Balance World-Building with the Action and Pace of a Thriller?
• Jason Sanford on How long to write that short story?
• Lydia Sharp on Ideas That Sell Are Not Always Groundbreaking.
• Crotchety Old Fan on Electro Pulp Video Magazine V1., N2.
• Listverse lists The Top 10 Strangest Moments of Movie Monster Science.
• AMC lists The Ten Best Comic Book Movies of the Decade.
• From the February 2010 issue of Asimov’s: Robert Silverberg on Re-reading Arthur C. Clarke.

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