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

• Edith Wharton Marathon Reading (featuring Jennifer Egan) – Thursday January 26, 2012 – 5:00 pm – The Center for Fiction, NY.

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.

Art

• Mondo’s Planet of the Apes Poster Series.
• A Chesley Bonestell Gallery.

More Fun Stuff

• Blue Marble 2012 – Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth.
• The Situation Web Comic–now up at Tor.com!
• Hellboy camp for teens.
• Star Wars meets Tank Girl.
• Westeros map app.
• Adaptception [Pic].

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