SF Tidbits for 9/24/11

Interviews & Profiles

• Locus Online interviews Alex Bledsoe (excerpt).
• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction interviews Chris DeVito.
• SFX interviews Alan Tudyk.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews Patrick A. Vanner.
• Grady Hendrix interviews Elizabeth Hand and Paul Park about Jobs from Hell.
• A Collection of Dan Abnett videos.

News

• An experiment purports to show that subatomic particles can travel faster than light.
• Neil Armstrong calls U.S. space program ‘embarrassing’.
• Artists use technology to remaster classics. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Coming soon: The Martian Alliance 1: The Royal Scam by Gini Koch.
• Darren Turpin joins Angry Robot Books.
• ‘Star Wars’ breaks Blu-ray sales records.

Events

• The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings presents Clay & Susan Griffith (Vampire Empire), Tuesday, October 4, at The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art in NYC.

Articles

• Kendare Blake on Researching The Dead.
• Omnivoracious on Halo: More Than A Video Game.
• A. Lee Martinez is having Random Thoughts.
• Athena Andreadis on Blog Archive » High Frontiers and Cheap Snarks.
• The Barnes & Noble Review on We Others: New and Selected Stories. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Strange Horizons (Karen Burnham) reviews Redwood and Wilfire by Andrea Hairston and Galore by Michael Crummey.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Jessica Strider) reviews The Declaration by Gemma Malley.
• Topless Robot lists The 11 Greatest and Nerdiest Fictional Bands.
• TechRepublic (Jay Garmon) lists The five worst Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes EVER!.

Art

• Super Cool Stylized Superhero Art.
• @CoolVibe: @: “Mountain Patrol” by Michal Suchánek.

More Fun Stuff

• Del Rey Spectra 50 Page Fridays: Lord of Souls by Greg Keyes.
• Ellen Datlow’s Photos from the September 21st KGB reading with Andy Duncan and Michael Swanwick.
• Video from Fractal’11: ”Kurt Vonnegut is my copilot” by Andrés Felipe Solano.
• Divine: The Series is storytelling for the smartphone generation.
• ShadowBytes Webcomic: Squirrel!

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