SF Tidbits for 8/28/10

Interviews & Profiles

• Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist interviews Peter F. Hamilton (The Evolutionary Void).
• Geeks On interviews David Brin

  (Podcast).

• John Scalzi’s Big Idea: Mike Shevdon (Sixty-One Nails).
• Jeff VanderMeer interviews Publishers Weekly‘s Rose Fox.
• Innsmouth Free Press interviews Sanford Allen.
• Susan Whitfield interviews Stuart Clark (Project U.L.F. – Reacquisition).
• Frederik Pohl remembers Gene Roddenberry (Part 2).

News

• The awesome short-fiction review site Best SF gets a redesign.
• Functional Nerds interview Aidan Moher and Daniel Goodman.
• It’s gonna be a Steampunk Autumn at Pyr Books.
• Book View Café Member Phyllis Irene Radford is hosting a giveaway of Enigma, which she wrote under the pen name C.F. Bentley.

Articles

• Ann VanderMeer on VanderMeer Stories: A Personal Reminiscence.
• Mike Brotherton on Science Fiction Food and Drink.
• Bridget McGovern on Alternate Universe Movie Posters.
• Lou Anders on Comic Matters.
• Andrew Liptak on Politics and Speculative Fiction.
• Wired profiles Space Squid.
• Shaun Duke on Placing New Weird in the Aesthetic Moment.
• Katie Connolly on Teaching philosophy with Spider-Man. [via Look At This]
• Michael Lee on Avatar, Inception, District 9 and the Art of the Infodump.
• Ruth on Why Science Fiction Is So Appealing in Hard Times.
• Real Science Part 1: Planets Weighed Using Pulsar Flashes. [via Look At This]
• Real Science Part 2: When worlds really do collide. [via Look At This]
• ScifiSquad lists The Top Ten Sci-Fi Comedies.
• Bloginhood lists Top 5 Rock’n'Roll Adventure Movies of SF.

More Fun Stuff

• Original advertisement for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 1917 novel A Princess of Mars.
• The Joker is Lex Luthor’s Imaginary Friend.
• New futuristic SciFi reality web series: Vexika.
• Cool Art: “Space Neanderthals” by jonone, a tribute to Frank Frazetta
• James Ng Eastern Steampunk Art.

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