SF Tidbits for 12/28/11

Interviews and Profiles

• Joseph Mallozzi interviews Marjorie M. Liu.
• The Coode St. Podcast The Second Annual Boxing Day Super Mega Podcast.
• Angela Slatter interviews Ben Julien.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea features Ryan

  David Jahn.

News

• Louis Thirion (1923-2011).
• Richard Bessière (1923-2011).
• LEC

  names Pyr Best SFF Publisher or Imprint 2011.

Events

• Podcast:

  Manila International Literary Festival 2011: World Book Market vs. World

  Readership

Articles

• John Scalzi on Dear Readers: Publishers Think of You as Customers I SWEAR.
• Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) on Fantastical Fiction: Four Unusual (and Suitably Small) Gifts for the Holidays.
• Lightspeed Magazine (Alan Smale) on Armageddon

  Rock.

• Jamie Todd Rubin on Year

  in review – 2011: Blogging.

• Black Gate (Scott Taylor) on Art

  of the Genre: I.C.E.’s Middle-Earth Roleplaying Part Two, Angus McBride

  [1931-2007].

• Sci-Fi Fan Letter reviews Shatter

  Me by Tahereh Mafi.

• SciFiNow on Doctor

  Who Top 5 Stories: The best of Sylvester McCoy.

• Life magazine (May 26, 1958) on Night

  Harbingers of Horror. [via Paul Di Filippo]

• Salon.com on To truly

  understand Gingrich’s mind, read his 1984 book on space exploration.

• Gone Reading on 2011

  Year In Review.

• Tor.com on Shadows

  of Sherlock: Analogs of the Detective in SF.

• Charlie Jane Anders on The Power List: 23 Movers and Shakers in Science Fiction and Fantasy.and 10

  Science Fiction Movies for People Who Think They Don’t Like Science Fiction.

• Comic Books Blog list 10

  Reasons to Reboot a Superhero Movie.

Art

• Fantastic

  Illustrations and Concept Art by Michal Lisowski.

• Matrix

  directors show us 2144 Seoul in Cloud Atlas concept art.

• Simpsonized Movie

  Posters.

• @CoolVibe: “Doll in bottle”

  by Aleksandr Kuskov.

• How

  to draw… dragons. [via Paul Di

  Filippo]

More Fun Stuff

• Fan

  Gives Wrath of Khan a CG Makeover.

• H.R.

  Giger-inspired sunglasses.

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