SF Tidbits for 5/1/10

Interviews & Profiles

• Scalzi’s Big Idea: Mira Grant (author of Feed, which has an official website).
• Apex interviews Lucien Soulban.
• Dark Wolf interviews artists Tuomas Korpi.

News

• The 2009 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced.
• David Langford’s Ansible 274 for May 2010 has been posted.
• PassionFruit Games Hosts Online Party to Celebrate Launch of Romance Casual Game Based on Marjorie M. Liu’s Tiger Eye Novel.
• Crossovers 1 Now Available.
• Ron Howard to direct Dark Tower movie trilogy.

Articles

• NYTimes on Authors Unbound Online: “In this time of Twitter feeds and self-designed Snapfish albums and personal YouTube channels, it’s hard to remember the stigma that once attached to self-publishing.”
• Suvudu on Science Fiction Versus Fantasy.
• Fantasy Magazine on The Year’s Best SF and Fantasy, 2010 Recommended Reading, Part 4.
• Geekend on Best and worst comic book movies.
• Pati Nagle on Where Ideas Come From.
• Charlie Stross on The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash.

More Fun Stuff

• Topless Robot lists 10 Incredibly Badass Batman Comic Moments.
• retroCRUSH lists The 20 Best Zombie Movies Of All Time.
• Classic SciFi lists Must-See SF Films from the 50′s. [via Divers and Sundry]
• 3 words: Electric Steampunk Motorbike.

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