SF Tidbits for 1/26/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Jackie Morris interviews Margo Lanagan.
- Daemon Books interviews Theodora Goss.
- The Qwillery interviews Theodora Goss.
- Fantasy Book Critic (Mihir Wanchoo) interviews James Rollins.
- Gollancz interviews Stephen Deas.
- ThrillerCast interviews Angela Slatter (podcast).
- SFF World interviews Myke Cole and Michael J. Sullivan.
- SF Squeecast Episode 8 (podcast).
- Lightspeed Magazine (Wendy N. Wagner) interviews Aimee Bender.
- Lightspeed Magazine (Christie Yant) interviews Ken Liu.
- Locus Roundtable features Siobhan Carroll and Austin Sirkina.
- Gollancz blog interviews Stephen Deas.
News
- 2012 Crawford Award Announced.
- inkscrawl, and Stone Bird Press.
- Stone Telling issue 7, Queer issue, call for submisions.
- Strange Chemistry Open Door 2012.
- NY Review of SF Readings Coast Guard Special.
- Philip José Farmer’s Time’s Last Gift: New Titan Books edition with all-new bonus material.
- Amazon Kindle eBook Deal: Get The Demi-Monde: Winter by Rod Rees for $1.99. [Thanks to Dan Geiser!]
Events
Articles
- A Dribble of Ink (Brent Weeks) on Geeks Come Home: 10 SFF Authors Play D&D Together.
- The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on Unity, Economy, and Writing as a Revelatory Act.
- John Shirley on Wolf Packing? Did the Tea Party get upset with me?
- Hiroshi Yamamoto on The World of MM9.
- Maggie Stiefvater on From Rough to Final: TEN Dissections.
- Juliette Wade on Checklist for creating alternate social and cultural norms in a fictional world.
- Janice Hardy on Leave the Breadcrumbs Behind: Are You Asking — and Answering — the Right Story Questions?
- Lisa L. Hannett on Pitching Novels to Publishers: Spectacular Spectacular.
- Charlie Stross (Cat Valente) on Hello My Name Is The Problem of Memory.
- Inkpunks (Stina Leicht) on Armadillocon Writer’s Workshop.
- Locus (Paul Di Filippo) reviews The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus.
- Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) on The Demi-Monde: A High Concept Sci Fi Thriller for Fans of Neal Stephenson.
- Jay Lake on The Laundry Files by Charles Stross.
- Black Gate (Howard Andrew Jones) on Revisiting The Chronicles of Amber.
- Black Gate (Scott Taylor) on Art of the Genre: The Age of Perfect Creation.
- Science In My Fiction (Peggy Kolm) on Soylent Green for dinner?
- Cat Valente on Hello My Name Is The Problem of Memory.
- Lucienne Diver on Authors’ Checklist of Dos and Don’ts.
- Joshua Palmatier (aka Benjamin Tate) on Politics in SF&F.
- John Scalzi on Academy Award Nominations 2012: Not Science Fiction’s Best Year.
- AMC (Maitland McDonagh) lists Superman’s Top Ten Supervillains.
- Topless Robot lists 9 Rock Songs from the 1960s About Superheroes.
- Huff Post lists The 10 Most Anticipated Book Adaptations Of 2012.
- The Geek Twins list 8 Sci-Fi Remakes Surprisingly Better Than the Original.
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