SF Tidbits for 3/2/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Agony Column interviews Dan Simmons (podcast).
• Book Banter interviews Seth Grahame-Smith (podcast).
• ActuSF interviews Philip K. Dick (French) and Frederik Pohl.
• Missions Unknown interviews Eugene Fischer.
• Reddit interviews Greg Bear (part 1) (video).
• The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy interviews Carrie Vaughn (podcast).
• Fastforward Radio interviews Cory Doctorow (podcast).
• Eneit Press interviews Kaaron Warren.
• @Tor.com: Tad Williams looks at the work of Michael Moorcock.

News

• RIP: David Severn.
• Australian Short Story Competitions.
• Locus Online has posted the contents of the March 2010 issue of Locus Magazine.
• Wizard Adds Three New Comic Con Shows in Nashville, Cincinnati, and Cleveland.
• David Langford has posted Ansible #272, March

  2010.

• Gaius Baltar (James Callis) Joins ABC’s FlashForward.

Articles

• Rich Horton on Summary: Some Miscellaneous sources, 2009, Cosmos, 2009.
• Malinda Lo on Asianness (or the lack thereof) in ASH.
• Jeremiah Tolbert on Labeling Oneself as an Artist and Why I Have Avoided It.
• Paul S. Kemp on Thoughts on e-book pricing.
• Clint Harris on Why Would Should All Stop Worrying and Love the SF Ghetto.
• Tamara Sellman on Everything I’ve learned about writing this year I’ve relearned by watching the Olympics [series Part One].
• Mark Teppo On the Nature of Magick.
• Irene Gallo on Robert McCall.
• Blake Charlton on In Praise of Audio Fiction.
• Booksquare on Tools. Change.
• Steven Harper Piziks on Writing Nowadays: Finding an Agent or a Publisher.
• Justine Larbalestier on Why I’ve Not Been Blogging.
• Juliette Wade on How Much Description?
• Janice Hardy on Be Flexible.
• The New York Times on Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book.
• Guardian on Publishing will always need its gatekeepers.
• Joseph Mallozzi reviews Cherie Priest’s Boneshaker.
• Irene Gallo on Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings cover by Michael Whelan.
• Nancy Kress on Epigenetics.
• Mike Resnick on Hunting Lake.
• Steven Francis Murphy is Pondering the Nature of World Building.
• @Orbit: Jeff Somers on Ghost Novels.
• Faerye.net On Genre, Part II: the future of genre.

Fun Stuff

• SF Site lists Greg L. Johnson’s Best Books of 2009 and Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2009: Readers’ Choice.
• ForkParty lists 7 Horror Movies So Bad, They’re Good.
• ComicsWorthReading lists Great Graphic Novels for Kids.
• Can you rate top banana on SciFi Scanner’s King Kong Ultimate Fan Quiz?
• Cool Stuff: Unobtanium T-Shirt.

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2. SF Tidbits for 3/2/09
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4. SF Tidbits for 9/19/09
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