SF Tidbits for 12/24/09
By Charles Tan |
Thursday, December 24th, 2009 at
12:05 am
Interviews/Profiles
- The Agony Column interviews Ann VanderMeer.
- The Agony Column on NPR Report on Jeff and Ann VanderMeer (podcast).
- Dead Robots Society interviews Deborah Kent, who’s running Con-Jour 2.0 (podcast).
- Michael A. Ventrella interviews James Enge.
News
- Ursula K. Le Guin Resigns from Authors Guild over Google Deal. See the letter verbiage here.
- Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award Balloting Open.
- World Fantasy Award Judges Announced.
- Speculative Literature Foundation Announces 2009 Gulliver Travel Research Grant Winner.
Articles
- Victoria Strauss on Drewlie and Julia: Or, The Case of the Alias’d Literary Agent.
- Jim C. Hines on The Publishing Lottery and Other Insults.
- Nuno Fonseca on Having It All.
- Jeff VanderMeer on How About Some Raw Dog for the Holidays?
- Jo Walton on What books do you buy to give to other people?
- Margaret Ronald on In the Dead of Winter.
- Editorial Anonymous on How to Tell If Your Sales Rock…or Don’t.
- Justine Larbalestier on More on Unhappy Endings.
- Mike Brotherton on A Modest Proposal: Scary School.
- Andrew Wheeler on E-Book Pricing: Attack of the Consultants.
- Janice Hardy on Doing That Author Thing.
- Christi Corbett on A Writer’s Space… Ideal vs. Reality.
- Paul Levinson looks at Avatar in Science Fiction Perspective.
Lists and Fun Stuff
- Sci-Fi Fan Letter lists Debut Authors To Watch For.
- FlickChart Fans pick The Top 20 Films Of The Decade.
- Zikkir posted The 2009 Science Fiction Power List.
- The Best Space pictures of 2009.
- The Signal has posted The First Rule of Flying, a collection of Firefly/Serenity-inspired songs, featuring John Anealio’s song “Summer Glau”.
- Test Your Scientific Mettle in AMC’s Fact vs. Fiction SciFi Movie Quiz 2009.
- The Retroist reminds us that we can play Atari games online at Atari.com.
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“See the letter verbiage here.”
Perhaps “the verbatim letter”? I’m unclear Le Guin’s words would otherwise be described pejoratively.
That particular item was my wording, Gary. I never realized “verbiage” had a negative connotation. However, according to Merriam Webster, there is also a non-derogatory meaning. That’s the definition I was using.