SF Tidbits for 1/5/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Edge Books (podcast).
• Rocket Kapre (Paolo Chikiamco) interviews Rochita Loenen-Ruiz.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Stephen Blackmoore.
• New Scientist interviews Stephen Hawking.

News

• John Joseph Adams is seeking short story recommendations for Epic anthology.
• Event Video: Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
• Lightspeed…Forever! Lifetime Subscriptions Now Available.
• Pentagon Scientists Use ‘Time Hole’ to Make Events Disappear.
• GM silk worms make Spider-Man web closer to reality. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• eBook Novella Deal: Kindle Edition of Strata by Stephen Gaskell and Bradley Beaulieu for $0.99.

Events

• Author Events for January 2012.
• Steampunk Events for January 2012.
• Sail to Success, a series of writing seminars on board a luxury cruise liner visiting the Bahamas, features Kevin J. Anderson, Paul Cook, Nancy Kress, Rebecca Moesta, Mike Resnick Jack Skillingstead, Toni Weisskopf and Eleanor Wood.
• Attack the Bloc: Cold War Science Fiction from Behind the Iron Curtain. [via Grady Hendrix]

Articles

• The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin reviews The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre by Tzvetan Todorov.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) on The Problem With Moral Abiguity In Fiction.
• AMC (John Scalzi) on Previewing 2012′s Science Fiction Film Slate.
• Daily Write (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) on How To Adapt A Well Known Story For Fiction.
• SFWA (Mary Robinette Kowal) on Debut Author Lessons–How to deal with self-promotion and award season.
• Juliette Wade on What your character doesn’t know can hurt him/her (in dialogue and internalization).
• Janice Hardy on I Meant to do That: Three Things Die Hard Can Teach us About Seamless Plotting.
• The Intern on Dinner with Literary Agents.
• Mike Shatzkin on The digital future still is a mystery if you don’t publish “immersive reading”.
• Inkpunks (Steven James Scearce) on I’ve finished writing my first novel. What the hell do I do next?
• Kay Kenyon on This Year No Excuses.
• Kate Elliott on Ways of Struggling with Gender.
• Nancy Kress on Diverse at the Movies.
• John R. Fultz -on Seven Days for Seven Princes: The Inspiration.
• Andrew Liptak on Geek Things of 2011.
• Tangent Online on Recommended Reading List 2011.
• [Congrats to Jay Garmon!]

Art

• Black Gate – Art of the Genre: The 5 Moods of Conan.
• Community‘s “Inspector Spacetime” Poster By Sam Spratt.
• @CoolVibe: “Tron” by Mariano Steiner.

More Fun Stuff

• “These Last Two Are Gonna Be Real Turds,” George R.R. Martin Assures Fans.
• Kirkus Book Reviews Editors’ Choice: Top Book Covers 2011.
• Wordnik Word Soup: Science Fiction.
• Forbes: Introducing A Science Fiction Book Club.

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