SF Tidbits for 2/24/10

Interviews/Profiles

• 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.

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