SF Tidbits for 9/28/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews John Picacio (podcast).
• Sybil’s

  Garage interviews Amal

  El-Mohtar.

• Larissa’s My Bookish Life interviews Gail

  Carriger.

• Grasping for the Wind interviews Martin

  H. Greenberg and John Helfers on The End of the World.

• The World SF Blog interviews Samit

  Basu.

• Lev Grossman Interviews Paolo

  Bacigalupi. [via Genreville]

• Risingshadow interviews Helen

  Lowe.

• John Joseph Adams interviews Paul

  McAuley.

News

• Novelist

  Stephenie Meyer has joined J.K. Rowling on the list of the most

  frequently-challenged books.

• The

  chief editor who enraged editorial staff at a highly circulated science fiction

  magazine in China has been sacked. [via SF

  Site]

Articles

• Heather Massey on Sex

  in Science Fiction: Are They Doing It Right? (A response to this

  week’s SF Signal podcast.)

• Zachary Kendal on Gene

  Wolfe: New Wave author?

• Mary

  Robinette Kowal on Debut

  Author Lessons: Mail and P.O. Boxes.

• Maria Snyder on The

  Weather: Part Art, Part Science, and Part… Magic?

• Steven

  Harper Piziks on Writing

  Nowadays-Why the Pen Name?

• Janice Hardy on E is

  for Everyone.

• Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett on Writing

  Collaboration.

• Jaine Fenn on My

  Life as the Ruler of the Universe.

• Patrick Brown on What

  Does it Mean to be a “Best Bookstore” Anyway?.

• Jo Walton reviews Robert

  Charles Wilson’s The Chronoliths.

• Triplanetary on Cosmic

  Engineers by Clifford D. Simak.

• Fred Burdsall on Ode

  to Roger Corman, Part 1: Galaxy of Terror.

• Walyou lists 14

  Amazing Bookmark Designs.

• Blastr lists 13 worker revolts

  and labor union uprisings from sci-fi history.

More Fun

Stuff

• Real-Life “Iron Man” Xos 2 Suit

  Revealed.

• Logan’s

  Run LEGO Diorama.

• Chris Roberson on The

  Waldo Ultimatum.

• Free Sample #1: Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks (Chapter 1).
• Free Sample #2: A

  Glimpse of Darkness by Harry Connolly (Chapter 2).

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