SF Tidbits for 2/24/10
By Charles Tan |
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at
12:05 am
- Omnivoracious profiles Margaret Atwood.
- The Agony Column interviews Jedediah Berry (podcast).
- The Interstitial Arts interviews Connie Toebe.
- Marvel interviews Marjorie Liu.
- Wicked Little Pixie interviews Anton Strout.
- Locus interviews Jo Walton.
News
- RIP Jim Harmon.
- The Speculative Ramayana Anthology: Call For Submissions.
- Jason Sanford reminds folksthat these are the final days to nominate stories for the Million Writers Award.
- The Matt Smith era of Doctor Who begins April 3rd in the UK.
- EVENT: Alastair Reynolds signing at Forbidden Planet, Saturday 13 March 13:00 – 14:00.
- John Scalzi continues his role as Creative Consultant for season 2 of Stargate Universe.
- Columbia Pictures is bringing the pulp-era Doc Savage series to life on the big screen.
Articles
- Nick Mamatas on Things sure are better in the slums, said the queen!
- Rich Horton’s Summary: Chapbook Anthologies, 2009.
- SFWA on How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: Joss Whedon, I’m calling you out.
- Dr. Kirtland C. Peterson on A “Fantasy Matters” Follow-Up: How “Real” is Hogwarts?
- Pam Jenoff on The Publicity Paradox.
- Alethea Kontis on Dear HWA.
- Cheryl Morgan on Part of Which Community?
- T.J. McIntyre on Ten Rules for Writing (…at least for this week).
- Charles Stross on Common Misconceptions About Publishing: #1.
- Varian Johnson on Battling Time Suck.
- David B. Coe on How I Know I’m a Writer.
- Mark C. Newton on Fund Your Own Writing Project.
- Pimp My Novel on Websites Wednesday.
- The Intern on In Defense of Book-Thieving: A Confession, and a Request.
- Here’s an interesting O’Reilly video about how the future of publishing lives on and around the web.
- Great Scott! Action Comics No. 1 sells for $1 million.
- The Crotchety Old Fan on Philip Jose Farmer’s definition of science fiction. See also, our Meld Melds where Today’s SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 1 and Part 2).
- Deborah J. Ross on Writing a Star Wars story.
- @The Guardian, rules for writing fiction according to writers such as Neil Gaiman, Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood; and Michael Moorcock, Jeanette Winterson, Philip Pullman, Zadie Smith, Ian Rankin and others. [via Stephen Dedman]
- Here’s the [PDF] List Authors Who Who opted out of the Google Book settlement. [via io9]
- SciFi Wire lists 16 bizarre sci-fi episodes of classic TV sitcoms.
- Jeff VanderMeer asks: What’re Your Top Five Under-rated Short Stories of All Time?
- Jonathan Strahan says Jack Vance for the Hugo!
- @SuperPunch: A Star Wars-themed used car dealership.
Related posts:
- SF Tidbits for 2/2/09
- SF Tidbits for 1/9/10
- SF Tidbits for 2/27/07
- SF Tidbits for 6/5/07
- SF Tidbits for 2/11/10
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