SF Tidbits for 8/25/11

Interviews and Profiles

• The Last Word interviews Lisa Mantchev.
• Angela Slatter interviews Rjurik Davidson.
• Short Story Geeks interviews Cory Doctorow (podcast).
• Creatures interviews Michael Kelly.
• Indyweek.com (Gerry Canavan) interviews Lev Grossman.
• Tor.com (Irene Gallo) profiles Chesley Award-Winner Julie

  Dillon.

News

• Tiptree Motherboard honored by the Science Fiction Research Association.
• Rob Thurman Hospitalized.
• First Synchronized

  Book Soundtrack Launched (for The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore).

• Robert

  Rankin to host SFX Sci-Fi Awards 2012.

• Mur

  Lafferty will be running Angry Robot’s new WorldBuilder project.

Articles

• The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin reviews Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse by Otsuichi.
• Book View Cafe (Shannon Donnelly) on Writing Muscles.
• Shimmer (Lisa L. Hannett) on Gathering Places for Infinite Worlds.
• Fantasy Matters (Monica Byrne) on Why Fantasy Matters: A Personal Apologia.
• Stroppy Author on How to speak publisher – C is for Character-led fiction.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Editing Fiction Anthologies.
• Inkpunks (Wendy Wagner) on Rewrite Requests.
• Geekfeminism on “Geek girls” and the problem of self-objectification.
• John Scalzi on What

  Makes a Scifi Film a Classic?

• T. C. McCarthy on Musings on

  Military SF.

• Utne Reader (Junot Díaz) on Dispatches

  from the Apocalypse. [via Paul Di

  Filippo]

• Black Gate on The

  Role of the Expert in Fantastic Fiction.

• Worldcon recaps from Lou

  Anders, Kate

  Baker and Mark R. Kelly.

Art

• Spaceship

  concept art by Aaron Limonick.

• Concept

  spaceship illustrations by Luca Oleastri.

• Exceptional

  Fantasy Concepts Featuring Epic Warrior Promo Art.

• @CoolVibe: “Subabysse

  II” by Serge Birault.

• @CoolVibe: “Inner

  Bridge” by Nicolas Bouvier.

• @CoolVibe: “Coming Home” by

  Michael Kutsche.

• @CoolVibe: “Requiem” by

  Hong Kuang.

• @ItsArtMag: “Treachery”

  by serio.

• @ItsArtMag: “UFO`s

  General” by ayueelvafirste.

• @ItsArtMag: “Colony I” by

  andreasrocha.

More Fun Stuff

• Lawrence Person’s Photos

  from Worldcon 2011 for Saturday, August 20 (Part 2).

• Free

  Excerpt: The Alloy of Law: Chapter Six by Brandon

  Sanderson.

• Free

  Music! The GeekDad Remix Album by John Anealio.

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