SF Tidbits for 3/15/10

Interviews/Profiles

• The Author Hour interviews R.A. Salvatore.
• Hour of the Wolf interviews N.K. Jemisin (podcast).
• A Journey Round My Skull interviews Franz Rottensteiner.
• Hub Fiction interviews Joe R. Lansdale.
• Odyssey Workshop interviews Alexander Jablokav.
• Embrace the Shadows interviews Laura Bickle.
• Neal Asher answers reader questions by video.

News

• Taos Toolbox Is Looking for Applications.
• Milford SF Writers’ Workshop 2010.
• It’s a madhouse!  A madhouse! Planet of the Apes prequel film confirmed.

Articles

• Victoria Strauss on Content Mills-Why Aspiring Writers Should Avoid Them.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts on My Top Ten Super-Solo-Unsequelled-Standalone Fantasy Novels.
• Jacqui Hayes on Talking squids in outer space.
• Arachne Jericho on Thoughts on the Cultural Appropriation of Geek Culture and Race.
• Christchurch City Libraries Blog on Gaiman, Lanagan: doing it for the kids, not the librarians and The most surprising thing you will ever hear Simon Schama say.
• Talula on Readers + Writers week – Neil Gaiman and Margo Lanagan.
• Larry Nolen on Can a gabacho understand non-gabacho writings?
• Matt Staggs on All You Zombies: Taking a Look at the Latest Zombie Fiction.
• Ari Marmell on What if Sauron had Won?
• MK Hobson on The paradox of diminishing competency.
• Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Information, Theft, and Confusion.
• Brenda Clough on Ways to Trash Your Writing Career: Writers Block.
• Sherwood Smith on Kids and a Sense of History.
• Kim Malo on Readers.
• Justine Larbalestier on How to Get Published? Don’t Ask Me.
• Eric Rosenfield on Where’s my Foreign Pop Fiction?
• The Intern on The Ten Best Things You Can Do For Your Manuscript.
• The New York Times on Living With Music: A Playlist by Michael Moorcock.
• Lucius Shepard on Cultural Appropriation.
• Joel Shepherd asks: So How Flawed Is Too Flawed?
• Mark Tiedemann reviews Daryl Gregory’s The Devil’s Alphabet.
• Lawrence Person on Dan Simmons Signing Followup (With Pics) and responds to Abe Book’s recent Collectible Philip K. Dick List with his article Abe Books Doesn’t Know Dick.
• “Society’s obsession with video and online

  gaming has advanced to the point that virtual environments are

  indistinguishable from physical ones” says the description for this video titled Play. [via J.M. McDermott]
  

• Triplanetary shares a video of The Beard Master.  Um…thanks? 

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