SF Tidbits for 7/31/10

Interviews & Profiles

• Brit Mandelo interviews Elizabeth Bear.
• Dark Wolf interviews Sarah Pinborough
• The Authors Speak interviews
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt on challenges of Inception‘s story and action scenes. (Plus: “Dreams on Screen” list.)

News

• Mark L. Van Name is donating 100% of his proceeds from the hardcover sales of his new novel, Children No More, to charity.
• 2011 Worldcon Rates Rise in October.
• Bruce Sterling passes along the news that There was no Big Bang.
• John

  Ottinger is guest editor of Residential Aliens Magazine.

• EVENT: As part of the Fantastic Fiction free

  reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Laura Anne Gilman

  & Mary Robinette Kowal Wednesday August 18th, 7pm at KGB Bar in NYC.

• J.J. Abrams producing period robot movie based on Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel, a graphic novel-picture book hybrid by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett.

Articles

• A. Lee Martinez on The Future Will Not Be Categorized.
• Maurice Broaddus on Why Do You People Still Need All that Black Stuff?
• John C. Wright on Depth, Height, and Mass of SF.
• Lavie Tidhar on Advice for Writers.
• Fantasy Literature on Why You Should Read Clive Barker.
• PCWorld lists 12 Technologies That Changed Everything. [via Interesting Pile]
• Sam Sykes vs. The Internet: A challenge for reviewers to read outside their comfort zones.

More Fun Stuff

• Advantages to Dating a Trekkie.
• Cinematical has Daft Punk Tron: Legacy Score (maybe).

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