SF Tidbits for 4/20/10

Interviews/Profiles

• ActuSF

  interviews Patrick

  Rothfuss.

• Beyond Victoriana interviews Karin

  Lowachee.

• The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast interviews

  Jonathan

  Coulton.

• David Steffen interviews Samuel Montgomery-Blinn.
• Pat’s

  Fantasy Hotlist interviews Guy

  Gavriel Kay.

• rasping for the Wind interviews Connor

  Fox.

• Apex interviews Tom

  Piccirilli and Sarah

  A. Hoyt.

• Shimmer interviews Alethea

  Kontis.

News

• RIP

  George Scithers, 1929 – 2010.

• Writer

  Ian Rankin hires library for birthday party.

• Tor

  signs three book deal with Terry Goodkind.

• The Sky Awards.
• WildStorm will publish a new

  comic

  series that will meld The X-Files with Steve Niles’ 30 Days

  of

  Night vampire series.

• Cthulhu

  Returns to BOOM! Studios.

• Mark Hamill hints that there’s

  an adaptation coming of his comic book series The Black

  Pearl, a superhero satire focused on media sensationalism.

  [via EW]

• New

  Star Wars TV toon may feature Luke, Han and Leia.

• Marianne de Pierres’

  website gets

  revamped.

Articles

• Victoria

  Strauss on PublishAmerica

  Strikes Again.

• BBC on Were the ‘mad’

  heroines of literature really sane?

• Liz Gorinsky on Tor’s

  30th: T-4: Earliest Memories.

• Jo Walton on OK,

  where do I start with that? A.

• Author Hal Duncan on Batwoman

  and the State of Gay Superheroes.

• Steven Harper Piziks on Writing

  Nowadays-A Time to Squee.

• Margo Lanagan on Not

  Writing.

• Mike Brotherton on Ways that both

  Relationships and Stories can Fail.

• Juliette Wade on Companions.
• Janice

  Hardy on Time

  After Time.

• Alan Rinzler on How

  writers build courage.

• Theo Beale on the

  Dreamcast Traveller game that never was. [via John

  O'Neill]

• John R. Fultz on Novels

  vs. Short Stories, and Why We Write. [also via John O'Neill]

• Sue Granquist lists her Favorite

  Horror Titles (Books/Film/TV/Music). [via John O'Neill yet again]

• Rachel Swirsky looking for Jewish SF/F

  published

  in the past decade.

• The New Yorker on The

  iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books.

• A. Lee Martinez on Storytellers.
• S.M. Duke on Science

  Fiction and Fantasy in Airports.

• Larry Ketchersid on The

  Red Skull (Doc Savage #17)

• Sci Fi Wire lists The

  12 most “inspiring” examples of environmentalism in sci-fi.

• Finally, an answer to the question “What

  happens when Left 4 Dead meets Wizard of Oz?”

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