SF Tidbits for 8/10/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Angela

  Slatter interviews Aliette

  de Bodard.

• Suvudu video recording of Kelley

  Armstrong.

• The Outer Alliance interviews Debra Killeen.
• The

  World SF Blog interviews Misha´El

  Yehudá.

News

• The SF Signal podcast is now available via RSS and iTunes.

• Seiun Winners.
• Alt Hist | The new magazine of

  Historical Fiction and Alternate History.

• Some

  Updates on Electric Velocipede.

• PS

  Publishing announces a slew of acquisitions. (See also: Summertime

  special offers)

• Recently posted podcasts: The

  SFFaudio Podcast #070 and The

  Skiffy and Fanty Show #12.

• Charles Stross has finished

  the manuscript of Rule 34, the “kinda-sorta sequel to

  Halting State“.

Articles

• Naomi

  Alderman on Steampunk

  culture: an introduction.

• Jim C. Hines on The Death of

  Print/Publishing, Part MCCLWTFXVIII.

• Morgan Dempsey on The

  Software Engineer’s Guide To Writing.

• Jeremy L.C. Jones on A

  Truly Public Monster or Why Are Zombies Fun to Talk about?

• Peadarog

  on Thank

  Goodness! Why Gatekeepers Will Always Be With Us.

• Ian Sales

  on The

  Unreachable Frontier.

• Laura Shapiro on Shirley Jackson’s Wifely

  Witchcraft.

• Manfred Dworschak on The

  Internet Generation Prefers the Real World.

• Lisa Shearin on

  5

  things I’ve learned about writing — writing is a business.

• Rachelle

  Gardner on What

  to Ask an Agent.

• Paul Di Filippo on Rocket

  Men Redux.

• Norman Spinrad on The

  Death Spiral of the Publishing Death Spiral.

• Morgan Dempsey on The

  Software Engineer’s Guide To Writing.

• What’s

  Your Favorite Heinlein Novel, Rudy Rucker?

• Daniel Rourke on A

  Sci-Fi Archaeology. [via io9]

• Brian Daughtry on How

  J.R.R. Tolkien Envisioned Environmentalism Through Fantasy.

• James Bloomer on What

  I Read As A ‘Young Adult’.

• Pravin Palande on Philip

  K. Dick’s legacy of dreams.

• Cynthia C. Scott on The X-Files:

  Faith and Paranoia in America.

• 4 Reasons Terminator

  Salvation Made Jeff Somers Angry.

More Fun

Stuff

• New

  Weezer Album is a Tribute to LOST‘s Hurley.

• Gregory

  Manchess on Robert Abbett and A Princess of Mars.

• Cool Art: “Too Late” by

  Adam Tredowski.

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