SF Tidbits for 5/27/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Omnivoracious

  interviews Michael

  Scott.

• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Robin

  Becker.

• Mihir Wanchoo interviews Phillip

  Margolin.

• Mur Lafferty interviews Jonathan

  Coulton.

• DayBreak Magazine interviews Lavie

  Tidhar (the “lost” Shine

  interview.)

• Mad Hatter’s Bookshelf interviews Jon

  Sprunk.

• Lev Grossman on The

  Time I Met J.K. Rowling: A Confession (Part One).

• Innsmouth Free Press interviews Amy Kollar Anderson.
• Book Chick City profiles Keri

  Arthur.

• Techland interviews Wil

  Wheaton.

• SCI FI Wire interviews George Romero.
• CGHUb interviews David

  Palumbo (NSFW).

Articles

• Garrison

  Keillor on When

  everyone’s a writer, no one is.

• Haikasoru on MM9.
• Paul G. Tremblay

  on HWA:

  Breaking up is hard to do.

• Victoria Strauss on Why

  Writer Beware Doesn’t Provide Publisher Recommendations (Plus Some

  Advice).

• Gail Carriger on Fan-Fiction.
• Jim C. Hines on Marion Zimmer Bradley

  vs. Fanfiction.

• Matt Forbeck & Jeff Grubb on Collaboration.
• Philip

  Athans on Wake Up,

  Time to Edit.

• Rachelle Gardner on Getting

  People to Read Your Book.

• Bob Fleck on Check

  Your Assumptions At The Door.

• Juliette Wade on Perceived

  Boundaries.

• Alastair Reynolds on Spaceflight

  and Optimism.

• Pimp My Novel on A

  Word on Literary Fiction.

• Chris Greenland on The

  Maddening Innards of the TARDIS.

• Futurismic on The

  near future is not amenable to fiction writers.

• The Bookseller on Bezos

  defends dedicated e-readers.

• eBookNewser on The

  Book Industry Study Group sees eBook adoption growing and Can

  Netflix and Digital Publishers Work Together?

Other Fun Stuff

• 5

  famous sci-fi movie quotes as infographics. Awesome.

• Five

  Great Star Wars Song Parodies.

• 12

  awesome science fiction lunch boxes.

• 10

  awesome Lost prequels and sequels you know you’d watch.

• 5 Neil

  Gaiman “spoilers” about his Doctor Who script.

• The

  5 Coolest and 5 Strangest Batman Comic Crossovers.

• If

  Movie Universes Had Propaganda Posters. [via Look

  At This]

• Cool Stuff: Star

  Wars Space Slug Oven Mitt.

• Free

  wallpapers from Artist Hugo Nominee Stephan Martiniere.

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