SF Tidbits for 2/18/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Broken Frontier interviews Marjorie Liu.
• Aidan Moher interviews N.K. Jemisin. (via Orbit Books)
• Suvudu Paranormal and Urban Fantasy Roundtable.
• Unbound interviews Guy Adams.
• Dead Robot Society interviews Matt Selznick (podcast).
• Charles Tan interviews Alisa Krasnostein.
• ActuSF interview Christopher Moore.
• The Future and You interviews Frederik Pohl. (podcast)
• Iain Sinclair on J.G. Ballard’s artistic legacy. [via Torque Control]
• Big Dumb Object has video of Kim Stanley Robinson: “We Are Living in a Science Fiction Novel We All Collaborate On”

Australian SpecFic Snapshot 2010

• Kaaron Warren
• Alan Baxter
• Lezli Robyn
• Deborah Kalin
• Adrian (K.A.) Bedford
• Gary Kemble
• Robert Hoge
• Will Elliott
• Nicole Murphy
• Jonathan Strahan
• D.M. Cornish
• Kate Eltham

News

• Strange Horizons looking for a First Reader (Fiction).
• Neil Gaiman editor for Best American Comics. (via Matt Staggs)
• E-Book Readers Attack Science Fiction Author Over “Wal-Mart” Comments.
• Harry Potter Author Named In Plagiarism Lawsuit. (via Matt Staggs)
• Pyr Now Accepting Unagented Submissions.
• Half of children don’t read fiction.

Articles

• Rich Horton’s Summary: Norilana anthologies, 2009.
• Matt Staggs on Chainmail bikini casefiles: Blizzard’s Diablo 3 and Writers reminisce about Dungeons & Dragons.
• Heather Tomlinson on Cover Girls.
• Alvina Ling on My job as a children’s book editor.
• Rachelle Gardner on Where the Rubber Meets the Road.
• Andrew Wheeler on Are Ebook Readers the New Web Browsers?
• Janice Hardy on Re-Write Wednesday: The Spit Shine.
• The Intern on In which being kind is *soooooo* inefficient.
• The Fortena Times on The Strange Tale of Solarcon-6: Philip K Dick’s FBI file and the bizarre story of a neo-Nazi plot to start a Third World War. [via Triplanetary]
• Howard Waldrop and Lawrence Person review The Wolfman.  (See also: Lawrence’s list of better werewolf films.)
• Jenn Brissett’s Best Books of the Decade.
• Kevin Maher Geeks Out About Visions of the Future.

Related posts:

1. SF Tidbits for 6/9/08
2. SF Tidbits for 12/29/09
3. Introducing Guest Blogger Matt Staggs
4. SF Tidbits for 6/25/08
5. SF Tidbits for 6/4/08

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