SF Tidbits for 3/16/10

Interviews/Profiles

• New Zealand Radio interviews Neil Gaiman. (via Aurealis Xpress)
• Blood and Stardust interviews Nicholas Kaufmann.
• The Dragon Page interviews F. Paul Wilson.
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast interviews director Alexandre Philippe.
• Ghost in the Machine interviews Gillian Summers. (podcast)
• Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews interviews artists Todd Lockwood.
• SciFi Scanner interviews Mark Millar.
• BookBanter interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.

News

• SALE: 50% Off All In-Stock and Forthcoming Night Shade Titles!
• Lightspeed Will Temporarily Close to Submissions.
• Battlestar‘s Gaius Baltar moves to Syfy’s Eureka.

Articles

• Rich Horton’s Summary: “Novella Chapbooks”, 2009.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts on Stealth Worldbuilding & the Other Kind of Standalone Fantasy.
• Ian McDonald on Spingate.
• Josh Jasper On Rocket Ships and Palm Trees.
• Gary Westfahl on Searching for Tomorrow: A Second Look at FlashForward.
• Jo Walton on Why reviewers don’t often say “This sucks”.
• Brandon Sanderson on Can you do that in a fantasy novel?
• Judith Tarr on Ways to Trash Your Riding Career: The More You Know…
• Editorial Ass on What’s a standard submission process like? (Your Questions continued).
• William Shunn on Publishers who ask for camera-ready copy.
• Courtney Milan on Lying.
• Rachelle Gardner on Common Questions Answered.
• S.C. Butler on Write What You Don’t Know.
• Artists: Create a Sci-Fi Interior Using Digital Painting Techniques.
• GD Falksen on REPO! The Genetic Opera vs. Repo Men.
• Nina Munteneau on Why District 9 Should Have Been the Most Important Movie of 2009.
• The History of Black Comic Book Heroes Through the Ages, Part 1 & Part 2. [via The Cultural Gutter] 
• Daniel Peretti on Superman as Science Fiction.
• Karen Healey on Writing From A Strange Land: The Imaginative Displacement of Margaret Mahy.
• The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 11: The People vs. George Lucas!
• Mike Brotherton on Interstellar Worldbuilding.
• Fantasy & SciFi Lovin’ News & Reviews on Hey! Your Politics Got Into My Science Fiction!
• Philip Palmer asks Is Urban Fantasy Really ALL About Sex?

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