SF Tidbits for 6/3/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Tracy

  Hickman (podcast).

• Suvudu’s chat with Guy

  Gavriel Kay.

• Philip Athans interviews Paul

  S. Kemp.

• BSC Review interviews Cory

  Doctorow (video).

• Dead Robots Society interviews Paul

  E. Cooley (podcast).

• Mihir Wanchoo interviews JC

  Marino.

• Speculative Horizons interviews Mark

  Charan Newton.

• Orbit interviews Tom

  Holt (Blonde Bombshell).

News

• Mythopoeic

  Awards: 2010 Finalists Announced.

• Kindle

  DX Fares Poorly With College Students.

• EVENT: The Beastly Bride readings at McNally Jackson book

  store in NY, Monday June 7th, featuring Ellen Datlow, Carol Emshwiller, Steve

  Berman, Richard Bowes, Jeffrey Ford, Gregory Frost, Nan Fry, and Mary Youmans.

• EVENT: Larry Ketchersid will be

  signing his book Software

  by the Kilo on Saturday, June 5, 2010, 2-4 pm at The

  Twig Book Shop in San Antonio, TX. Everyone who convinces him to buy

  me a bagel gets to hear about how said bagel tasted.

Articles

• Mary Anne

  Mohanraj’s WisCon 34

  Guest of Honor Speech. (via Dead

  Brown Walking)

• Laura Miller on Book

  owners have smarter kids.

• Strangedave on Feminist Anger.
• Alisa

  Krasnostein on The conversation

  again, again.

• Genevieve Valentine on Top

  Ten Magical Realism Films.

• Sandra McDonald’s Periodic Table of Women

  in SFF. (via Elizabeth Bear)

• Nick

  Kauffman on Black

  Spider-Man Sets Intertube Users ON FIRE!

• Jim C. Hines on Writing

  About Rape, Part II.

• Nnedi Okorafor on Some

  remaining thoughts on Avatar and two new reviews of Who Fears Death.

• Juliette

  Wade on Is

  it “said David” or “David said”?

• Janice Hardy on Re-Write

  Wednesday: Pile On.

• John Scalzi on Splice,

  Artificial Life, and the Summer Box Office So Far.

• Malinda Lo on What’s

  Next for Fantasy Publishing? Zombies, Angels, Teens, and Machines! [via Richard

  Larson]

• Andrew Liptak reviews Ship

  Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi.

• SCI FI Wire asks: Are these the

  greatest sci-fi characters from the past 20 years?

• Forces of Geek lists Top

  10 Batman Tales: Behind the Cowl.

• Hollywood.com lists Cinema’s

  Five Worst Genetic Experiments.

• Carlos

  Ruiz Zafón’s top 10 20th-century Gothic novels. [via Lit

  Lists]

• Gunaxin lists The

  Top 20

  Awesome Fictional Cars.

• Metromix lists 10

  kinkiest sci-fi sex scenes. “They don’t have to be human to have a

  good

  time.”

More Fun Stuff

• Shaun

  Tan’s The Lost Thing trailer.

• Cover

  art for Edward Willett’s upcoming YA fantasy Song of the

  Sword.

• Free audio sample: Android

  Karenina, Chapter One.

• Angry Robot of the Week: Bender!
• Are you a hero — or just a henchman? Take

  the Hero Complex quiz at Hero Complex.

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