SF Tidbits for 2/13/12
- Booktopia interviews Margo Lanagan.
- Brad C. Hodson interviews Maria Alexander.
- Suicide Girls (Nicole Powers) interviews Cory Doctorow.
- Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Peter Orullian (podcast).
- Weird Fiction Review (Gio Clairval) profiles Dino Buzzati.
- Odyssey Workshop interviews Paul Park.
- Islam and Science Fiction (Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad) interviews Matt Ruff.
- SciFi Diner Podcast interviews Tricia Helfer.
- NPR interviews Anne Rice.
News
- Con or Bust auction.
- Steve Jackson Games to Digitally Release Five Classic GURPS Conan Titles.
- Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman Sued By Co-Creator Tony Moore.
Articles
- Book View Cafe (Kelly McClymer) on Writing in the Digital Age: Connecting with Readers: The Stephen King Problem.
- Charlie Stross (Cat Valente) on Between the Perfect and the Real: On Writing Part 2.
- Janice Hardy on The Faceless Villain: What to do When Your Bad Guy Isn’t a Person.
- Inkpunks (Wendy Wagner) on Better Procrastination as a Writer.
- Novums on C.L. Moore’s “Dust of Gods”: Materiality, Spirituality, and “Anti-Science” Fiction.
- Irtiqa (Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad) on Report from a panel on Science Fiction and Islam.
- The Weathered Journal on To map or not to map? An important question for fantasy and scifi writers.
- Alan Baxter on For the love of online fiction magazines.
- Big Hollywood on The Politics of Star Trek.
- Cankler on BigThink (Michio Kaku) on Cataclysmic Solar Flares For 2012.
- LitReactor (Jack Joslin) on Beyond the Zombie: Something Ominous is Missing from Horror Fiction.
- FEARnet lists The Top 5 Cinematic Horror Movie Nerds.
Art
- Awesome Art Picks: Batman, Wolverine, Spider-Man and More.
- Concept Art for Fallout 3.
- @CoolVibe: “Dragon Soul” by Christoph Peters Von Sperling.
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