SF Tidbits for 1/23/12
Interviews and Profiles
- The Guardian (Susannah Clapp) profiles Angela Carter.
- Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe interviews Cheryl Morgan.
- Outer Alliance Podcast records The Queer SF&F Panel at Arisia.
- The Agony Column interviews Téa Obreht (podcast).
- Gollancz interviews Patrick Rothfuss.
- Salon.com interviews William Gibson. [via Paul Di Filippo]
News
- Twelfth Planet Press Seeking Publicity and Promotions Coordinator.
- Mike Resnick and Bob Garcia will be editing the anthology The Worlds Of Edgar Rice Burroughs for Baen Books which will include all new stories using ERB’s characters and worlds.
Articles
- Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on Narrators, Reliable and Un.
- JM McDermott on Things I’ve learned reading slush all day…
- Kat Howard on A miscellany of reasons.
- Inkpunks (Cory Skerry) on Viable Paradise.
- The Guardian (Margaret Atwood) on Haunted by The Handmaid’s Tale.
- Locus Roundtable: Vertical Intersectioning.
- Academic Editing Canada (Dr. Kathryn Allan) on Earth Goddesses and Cyborgs: Defining Feminist SF.
- David Brin’s List of Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy Tales.
- Jamie Todd Rubin is Vacation in the Golden Age, Episode 31: January 1942.
- Helen Lowe on Tropes Not Cliches: More Thoughts On Making ‘Epic Fantasy New’ & The Importance of Character.
- Salon.com on Rise of the Super-Earths. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- The Independent asks Where have all the book illustrators gone?
Art
- Concept spaceship art by Finnian MacManus.
- @ItsArtMag: “Four Brothers” by volkanyenen.
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