SF Tidbits for 1/5/10
By Charles Tan |
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 at
12:05 am
Interviews/Profiles
- Odyssey: The Fantasy Writing Workshop has a podcast with Jeffrey A. Carver.
- The Agony Column interviews Brian Evenson (podcast).
- Graham Sleight interviews Farah Mendlesohn on Joanna Russ.
- Strange Horizons interviews Jeff VanderMeer.
- The World SF News Blog interviews artist Leonardo M. Giron.
- Bibliophile Stalker interviews Dario Ciriello.
News
- Hugo Nominations Are Now Open!
- Realms of Fantasy: Women in Fantasy Issue: Call for Submissions.
- Winners of the 2006 and 2007 Carl Brandon Awards.
- Tor Books: Two editorial interns wanted.
- Best American Fantasy #4 Now Reading.This edition’s Guest-Editor is Minister Faust.
- Viable Paradise Writer’s Workshop Open to Applications.
- Artists: Spectrum entries due January 22nd.
- David Langford has posted the new Ansible 270, January
2010
. - The Thing Prequel to Begin Production in March.
Articles
- Rich Horton’s Summary: Black Gate, 2009.
- Steven Harper Piziks on Geek of the Week: Fan Fiction.
- Gerard Houarner on Openings.
- BBC on Is blue the new black? Why some people think Avatar is racist.
- Jim C. Hines on 2009 Writing Income.
- Sarah Monette on The Moss-Troll Problem.
- Aliette de Bodard on Obsidian and Blood setting, 1: the Valley of Mexico.
- Haikasoru on Set the dial for…1972!
- Kelly Eskridge on Plant your tree.
- Donna Jo Napoli on Living in the world of the book.
- Arachne Jericho on The Sherlock Holmes Fandom: Dawn of the Shipping Wars.
- Janice Hardy on Under Development.
- Dr. Amy H. Sturgis on 2012: The Good, the Bad, and the Apocalyptic.
- Damien G. Walter asks: Whatever happened to the Next Weird?
- GalleyCat on Smashwords: Book Publishing 10 Years in the Future.
- The Solar System is lying about its age.
- Guardian on Arthur C Clarke and the end of upbeat futurology.
Fun Stuff
- John Picacio’s 2009 Published Work.
- This is David Levine. This is David Levine on Mars.
- Some year-end reviews: Rob Bedford’s 2009 Reading Year in Review, SFFWorld’s SF Review of 2009, SFFWorld’s Fantasy Review of 2009.
- Superheroes interpreted as album art. [via Drawn]
Related posts:
- SF Tidbits for 2/4/08
- SF Tidbits for 12/15/09
- SF Tidbits Part LXI
- SF Tidbits for 11/8/09
- SF Tidbits for 12/4/09
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The link to “The Solar System is lying about its age” is broken.
Link fixed. Thanks!