SF Tidbits for 8/31/10

Interviews

• Peter

  Orullian interviews Daniel

  Abraham.

• The Outer Alliance interviews Karen Romanko.
• Hour

  of the Wolf interviews Sybil’s

  Garage (podcast).

• Betsy Mitchell interviews Harry

  Connolly.

• Angela Slatter interviews Jeffrey Ford and Alisa

  Krasnostein.

• John Scalzi’s The

  Big Idea: Mark Van Name.

• René A. Guzman interviews Chris

  Roberson.

• Joseph Mallozzi’s readers interview Lou

  Diamond Phillips.

• SFF Ausio interviews Luke Burrage

  and Gregg Margarite (podcast).

• Daniel Goodman interviews Charles

  Yu (How

  to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe). (Thanks for the

  shout-out , Charles!)

News

• Indigenousfuturisms Writing Contest

  $1000 Prize.

• How

  the Washington Shakespeare Company came to offer Shakespeare in Klingon.

• Black

  Library announces Hammer and Bolter.

• Crossed

  Genres Year One – Half off through Saturday! ($2.50 PDF, $5 print!).

• Doctor

  Who Series/Season Six Will Be Split.

• SF Scope rounds up The 62nd

  Annual Emmy Award Winners–the sf/f/h nominees.

• Congrats to SF Signal contributor Lisa Paitz Spindler, whose first

  novel will be released by Carina Press this Spring.

Events

• A Washington

  DC-area Shakespeare theatre company is doing a fundraising performance of

  Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing in the original Klingon.

Articles

• Darin

  Bradley on Noise,

  the Apocalypse, and You.

• Ryan Britt on I

  Can Has Ray Gunz! Cat-People in Science Fiction.

• Matthew

  David Surridge on Worlds

  Within Worlds: The First Heroic Fantasy (Part I).

• Mike

  Brotherton on Where is

  the Science Fiction Writer’s Promised Land?

• Rachelle Gardner

  on Writing

  Online Book Reviews.

• Richard Dansky on Heresy!

  Blasphemy! Rah Rah Rah!

• Alma Alexander on 10

  Authorial Confessions.

• Stroppy Author on How

  to read a publishing contract (20).

• Cory Doctorow on Doctorow’s

  First Law.

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on Changing

  Times.

• T.N. Tobias on Writing Believable

  Fantasy.

• Marty Halpern on Philip

  K. Dick & Rudy Rucker’s Warez.

• Mike Brotherton asks Where

  is the Science Fiction Writer’s Promised Land?.

• Ryan Britt on Cat-People

  in Science Fiction.

• Brian E Niskala on The History of

  Scifi in Horror.

• Being Ruth on When

  times get tough, science fiction pulls us through.

• Dan Goodman on The

  Brave New World of SF/F: The New Weird.

• Yo Prinzel on 3

  Worst Science Fiction Movie Remakes.

• JO

  Walton reviews Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein.

• Elizabeth

  Bear reviews Omnitopia Dawn by Diane Duane.

• Adam Roberts on The

  Eighty-Minute Hour by Brian Aldiss.

• Cyriaque Lamar lists Fantastic

  scifi graphic novels that will get you hooked for life.

• Lorraine McInerney lists Top

  Five Female Vampires in Literature.

More Fun

Stuff

• Retro review: Siskel

  & Ebert discuss 1996 Sci-Fi spoof Mars Attacks!

• Feel like a challenge: The

  Way of Kings Holds a Secret From The Wheel of

  Time.

• io9 Book Club on The

  Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin.

• More of Lawrence Person’s photos from Armadillocon.
• Infographic: The

  tortured 73-year history of The Hobbit film.

• Wolverine

  toy fail.

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