SF Tidbits for 9/28/11
Interviews and Profiles
- Fantasy Matters (Megan Kurashige) interviews Helen Oyeyemi.
- Fantasy Faction interviews Peter V. Brett.
- ReadMOre (Mark Tiedemann) interviews Ursula K. Le Guin (video).
- If You’re Just Joining Us interviews Jon Armstrong and Chris Moriarty (podcast).
- Suvudu Take Five with Greg Keyes.
- Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) interviews Cherie Priest.
- MTV Geek Bubonicon 2011 interviews: Paul Cornell, George R.R. Martin, Andy Kuhn, Carrie Vaughn, Daniel Abraham, John Joseph Miller, Stephen Leigh, Melinda Snodgrass, Ty Franck (video).
News
- Coming Soon from Blackstone Audio: Little, Big by John Crowley, read by the author. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Del Rey’s Editor-in-Chief Betsy Mitchell Bows Out.
- Bear’s Magnificent Eon Trilogy United in E-Book Format.
- TF3 Battle Zoneadds, an all-new social networking app, is being rleased in conjunction with the Transformers: Dark of the Moon DVD.
- SPAN is a science fiction film being funded through Kickstarter and RocketHub.
- Stephen King Officially Announces Dr. Sleep, a Sequel to The Shining.
Events
- The Center for Fiction Celebrates SFF with Margaret Atwood, Kelly Link, Lev Grossman, N.K. Jemisin, Ellen Kushner & More.
- Demi-Monde: an erotic science fiction novel-in-stories fund-raiser.
- Warren Ellis Captured Ghosts To Screen During NYCC.
- Triple Signing at FP London!
Articles
- Neal Stephenson on Innovation Starvation.
- Mike Brotherton on Superheroic Science.
- Chuck Wendig on Writers Must Kill Self-Doubt Before Self-Doubt Kills Them.
- Inkpunks (Wendy Wagner) on The net worth of your network.
- The Atlantic on The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books.
- Forces of Geek on The Talking Dead–Chris Roberson’s iZombie Madness.
- Jayme Lynn Blaschke on Frankenstein’s moon.
- AbeBooks on The Woman Who Shocked America: Shirley Jackson. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Kevin Maher on Kevin Geeks Out About Rip-Off Cinema.
- Deborah J. Ross on “Only” Fiction.
- Lev AC Rosen on Flawed Feminism in All Men of Genius.
- Ryan Britt on Genre in the Mainstream: Are Fantasy Tropes a Punk Response to Literature?
- Lightspeed Magazine (Shaenon K. Garrity) on Immortals That Show Us That Death Is The Best Option.
- Paul Di Filippo reviews Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton.
- Scott A. Cupp on Forgotten Films: The Last Wave (1977).
- Aidan Moher on On Meeting Blake Charlton, Robin Hobb, Peter Orullian and Todd Lockwood.
- Skeptoid on Science Fiction Predictions That Came True.
- Heather MASsey on Adventures in Comic Sci-Fi Romance: Robots and Alligators Attack!
- Charles Stross on Introducing: Joan Slonczewski.
- File 770 on The 9000 Names of Hal.
- Slate Magazine (Frank Lesser) on The joy of unicorns: The real reason you never see the mythical one-horned beasts.
- Quit Your Day Job lists Ten science fiction films you really should see if you haven’t already – Part one.
- Blastr lists 6 sci-fi and fantasy film franchises that cry out for prequels.
- Smithsonian Magazine lists The Top 10 Books Lost to Time.
- FEARnet lists Five Trailers that Scared the Living Crap Out of Me.
Art
- Sci-fi & Fantasy Art Featuring Digital Concept Artist Dan LuVisi.
- @CoolVibe: “The City Moliya In Green Valley” by Wei Wei Hua.
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