SF Tidbits for 11/5/11

Interviews & Profiles

• Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews Aliette de Bodard.
• John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley interview Lev Grossman (podcast).
• Locus Roundtable podcast features Nalo Hopkinson and Karen Lord.

News

• Giant Asteroid To Comes Closer to Earth Than Moon This Tuesday!
• Mars simulation: Men ‘return’ to Earth after 520 days. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Attention Book Buyers! Beware Hephaestus Books: A Different Kind of Ripoff.
• Become a Named Character in Brandon Sanderson’s upcoming The Wheel of Time novel, A Memory of Light.
• B&N launching Nook Tablet for $249 on November 16th.
• UK publishers call for e-book chart after WSJ first.
• Apex Book Company is giving away a NOOK coloras part of their subscripion drive.

Events

• Future Lovecraft anthology launch, n Saturday, Dec. 3rd, 1:30PM – 4:30PM in Toronto.

Articles

• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) on Murakami’s ’1Q84?: Is This the Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy?
• NYTimes (Geoff Dyer) on The Art of the Novel.
• Jamie Todd Rubin on How we “see” what we read in stories.
• Mark London Williams on Nexus Graphica.
• Allan Cole on Lou Ferrigno And The Harley Hulkout.
• Fantasy Faction on Fantasy as Mythology.
• The Bookseller on Sci-fi/fantasy new frontier for publishers.
• Guardian on AI scientists want to make gods. Should that worry us?.
• IGN lists Top 25 Fantasy Books. [via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine]
• SFX lists Sci-Fi’s 10 Geekiest Films and Shows.
• Channel 37 lists The Top Religions of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
• Furious Fanboys lists The 10 Best Star Wars Posters.
• Publishers Weekly’s Best Books 2011: The Top 10.

Art

• Free Halo: Glasslands Wallpaper.
• Collection Of Fascinating Spacescape Wallpapers.
• A Small Gallery of Literary Giants.
• @CoolVibe: @: “Out of Hell” by Julio Cesar Espada.
• @ItsArtMag: @: “Stupid Hero” by Gorislav.

More Fun Stuff

• Jayme Lynn Blaschke’s Awesome Moon Pictures.
• Del Rey Spectra 50 Page Fridays: Lord of Snow and Shadows by Sarah Ash.
• Stephen King sculpture/action figure.
• ShadowBytes WebComic: We Smell Butts.

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