SF Tidbits for 1/17/10

Interviews & Profiles

• John Scalzi and Jim Hines are interviews at Cult Pop.

News

• Vote For Your Favorite Books of the Past Year in the Annual SF Site Readers’ Choice: Best Read of 2009.
• @Wired: Star Trek Stops Women From Becoming Computer Scientists.
• Fairwood Press is now on Facebook.

Articles

• Kay Kenyon asks: Why Does Everyone Want to Write a Novel?
• Win Scott Eckert on Win Scott Eckert.com: Philip José Farmer’s Doc Savage and Dave Stevens’ The Rocketeer and Crossovers.
• Niall Harrison has posted his Interzone Poll votes. (See also: Greg Egan’s complete index of Interzone.)
• Louise Marley offers Tips to Avoid the Slush Pile.
• Chad Henderson on Everything I need to know I learned from D & D.
• Chris Dolley on The Slushpile Smackdown.

Fun Stuff

• Art:
  • Cover Pr0n: Alpha and Omega by Maurizio Manzieri.
  • Artist Ben Baldwin has posted the original artwork for Jason Sanford’s upcoming Interzone story “Into the Depths of Illuminated Seas” .
• Free Excerpts:
  • From the Shine anthology:
    • “Summer Ice” by Holly Phillips.
    • “Overhead” by Jason Stoddard.
  • My Dead Body by Charlie Huston. (See my review here.)

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3. SF Tidbits for 9/27/09
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