SF Tidbits for 6/8/11

Interviews

• The Functional Nerds interviews Mur Lafferty (podcast).
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Daniel H. Wilson.
• The Last Word interviews Lilith Saintcrow.
• The Dragon Page interviews M D Lachlan (podcast).
• If You’re Just Joining Us interviews M. D. Lachlan (podcast).
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews K.C. Ball.
• Apex (MG Ellington) interviews R. Thomas Riley.
• HTML Giant (Christopher Higgs) interviews Brian Evenson.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Kevin Hearne.

News

• Femmes Fatales submissions.
• First science fiction novel in Shona.

Events

• Saturday June 11th: Conrad Williams Signing at Waterstone’s Liverpool One.
• Saturday June

  11th: a reading/signing of Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow’s young adult anthology, Teeth, at the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village, NYC. 3-5pm.

• Sunday June 12th: Mary Robinette Kowal signing att Uncle Hugo’s SF bookstore in Minneapolis from 1-2PM.
• Summer

  Scifi Trivia Contest, sponsored by Pyr and hosted by Adventures in Scifi

  Publishing, I Should be Writing, and SF Signal (Hey, that’s us!)

Articles

• Juliette Wade on Using details for setting: insider details and audience details.
• Myra McEntire On Brainstorming.
• Salon (Laura Miller) on When bad people write great books.
• Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) on Exploring the NYT Book Review’s SF/Fantasy Column.
• Tor.com (Ryan Britt) on Genre in the Mainstream: The (Depressing) Science Fiction Novels That Cross Over.
• John Scalzi on Why You Can’t Get My Book in [Insert Country Here].
• Tor.com on Life Is Short, Art Is Long: A Statistical Look at the Hugo Awards For Best Short Story.
• The (Depressing) Science Fiction Novels That Cross Over.
• Mike Brotherton on Dividing Space by Zero.
• The Crotchety Old Fan on Value Added Content for EBooks.
• Bibliophile Stalker on More Random Thoughts on Philippine Speculative Fiction 2011.
• T.N. Tobias on YA Fiction: Don’t Ban, Pan.
• Ian Sales on SF Mistressworks: one week on.
• One Geek’s Mind lists One

  Geek’s Mind: Top Ten Game of Thrones Bad-Asses.Top

  Ten Game of Thrones Bad-Asses.

Art

• Wallpapers: Chasing the Moon by A. Lee Martinez.
• Image: C-3PO and R2-D2 as Batman and Robin.

More Fun Stuff

• The Shadow Bytes: “Half Cocked Fully Steamed”.
• Steampunk Borg from Star Trek.

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2. SF Tidbits for 1/12/11
3. SF Museum & Hall of Fame Opens This Week
4. SF Tidbits for 6/5/06
5. SF Tidbits for 4/8/11

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