SF Tidbits for 11/2/11

Interviews & Profiles

• Tesco Books Blog interviews Stephen King.
• Malinda Lo interviews Jacqueline Carey.
• Apex Magazine interviews interviews Lynne M. Thomas and Scott Murphy.
• Fantasy Magazine (J.T. Glover) interviews Jenny Laatsch and Madame Thenadier.
• Lightspeed Magazine (Andrew Liptak) interviews Elena Bespalova.
• The Functional Nerds interview Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
• Frederik Pohl on Julie Schwartz.
• Justin Golenbock interviews Karen Traviss.

News

• Now posted: Ansible 292, November 2011.
• Now posted: Redstone Science Fiction #18.
• Now available: Aurealis #46.
• Crossed Genres issue 35 released.
• American Horror Story coming back for season 2.
• Zombies worth over $5 billion to economy. [via Geekologie]
• The Orbital Drop: Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s The Fallen Blade for $4.99.

Events

• At 7:30 PM EST on Wednesday, November 2, # bestselling authors PC and Kristin Cast (House of Night series) will speak and answer questions live on UStream.

Articles

• Jay Lake on Oxen and Sociopaths: Writing Endurance.
• A. Lee Martinez on Love the Bunny Suit.
• Courtney Schafer on It’s All About the Conflict.
• Derek Johnson on The Curious Case of Andrew Niccol.
• Black Gate (Matthew David Surridge) on Romanticism and Fantasy: The Gothic.
• Graham Edwards on Revisiting Cinefex (10): Poltergeist and Firefox.
• The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on Leaping the Chasm of Imagination: Verisimilitude, Historical Fiction, and Speculative Fiction.
• Lightspeed Magazine (Alan Smale) on Planetary Alchemy.
• Charles Tan on World Fantasy Convention 2011: Relationships and Etiquette..
• Jo Walton on Ursula Le Guin’s Tales from Earthsea.
• The Barnes & Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) reviews Physics on the Fringe.
• The Atlantic on How Celebrities Took Over Cartoon Voice Acting.
• U.S. Department of Education on Becoming a Reader — Helping Your Child Become a Reader.
• Vulture on Our Final Terra Nova Recap: 25 Reasons We’re Quitting This Show.
• Polis on Cities in Dystopian Science Fiction.
• Superhero Nation lists 5 Time Sinks for Superhero Authors.
• Newsarama lists 10 Great Horror Comics, From Golden Age to Now.
• Abduzeedo lists Retro Horror Movie Posters.

Art

• 10 Retro Illustrations of Pop Culture Icons.
• Gallery of Comic Book Artist Jim Lee.
• @CoolVibe: @: “Blanka” by André Holzmeister.
• @CoolVibe: “Pirate Robot” by Angel Diaz.
• @Avalanche Software Art Blog: “Cyborgorilla” by Sam Nielson.

More Fun Stuff

• Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven Illustrated by Paul Gustave Doré.
• Halloween horror: John Landis’s Monsters in the Movies.
• Annabel Lee, After The Uprising by Mira Grant.
• Battlestar Galactica Notebooks.

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