SF Tidbits for 4/27/10

Interviews/Profiles

• ActuSf interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
• Temple Library Reviews interviews J. Robert King.
• The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast interviews Naomi Novik.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: J.A. Pitts.
• David Steffen interviews M.E. Ray.
• Apex interviews Ekaterina

  Sedia.

• io9 interviews Eric Heisserer,

  screenwriter for The Thing prequel.

News

• Peter Watts Receives Suspended Sentence.
• Christopher Hitchens re-reads Animal Farm.
• The Indigenous Literacy Project.
• Legend

  of the Seeker has been canceled.

• Terry

  Pratchett to guest edit SFX magazine.

• Dr.

  Horrible Goes 8-Bit, Act lll goes live. [via Techland]

Articles

• Matthew Cheney on Patriarchy Studies.
• Jason Henninger on Novel Disfunction.
• Brett Sandusky on Innovation Through Experimentation.
• Steven Harper Piziks on What an Agent Does.
• Cory Doctorow on In praise of SFWA’s Grievance Committee.
• Editorial Anonymous on Children vs Adults.
• Rachelle Gardner on Does Your Agent Have to Love Your Book?
• Stroppy Author on How to read a publishing contract.
• Juliette Wade on Dialogue that Matters.
• Janice Hardy on Setting Up the Tension.
• Sanfeng on We

  are Here, We are Together —- An Introduction to New Realms of Fantasy

  and Science Fiction (Xin Huan Jie), a Chinese SF/F Fanzine.

• Lionel Fanthorpe says Britain still rich in ghost sightings and reports of devils, demons and evil spirits of various forms. [via Lawrence Person]
• Cyriaque Lamar lists The Top 10 Weirdest Songs From Superhero Movies.
• Nancy Kress on Literary Snobbery.
• John Stanko on The Illustrators POV.
• Doug Mann In Defence of Science Fiction.

More Fun Stuff

• SciFi Wire’s Ultimate guide to Nightmare on Elm Street.
• Cthulhu Bobblehead! [via Divers

  and Sundry]

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