SF Tidbits for 2/15/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Weird Fiction Review (Jeff VanderMeer) interviews Ben Marcus.
• SFWA (Rick Novy) interviews Vylar Kaftan.
• Rambling On interviews Bart Leib.
• Ooligan Press interviews Jay Lake.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Stephen Deas.
• Black Gate (C.S.E. Cooney) interviews Dave Thompson and Anna Schwind.
• SF Squeecast Episode 9.
• Apex interviews R.A. Salvatore.
• Functional Nerds Patrick Hester and John Anealio interview Gabrielle Gantz and Brian

• Gareth Roberts Signs Shada.
• Ideomancer looking for Junior Editors.
• DC Unveils New Black Superman.
• SF Scope Editor Ian Randal Strock is financing his new non-fiction book via Kickstarter.
• Gary Gianni to Illustrate 2014 new Song of Ice and Fire Calendar.

Articles

• Chuck Wendig on 25 Things You Should Know About Protagonists.
• Fantasy Matters (Jen Miller) on A Thin Line Between Faith and Reason: Madeleine L’Engle and the Function of the Fantastic.
• Jim C. Hines on Writers of the Future and Scientology.
• Paul Cornell on Panel Parity.
• The Huffington Post (Theodora Goss) on Top 10 Fantasy Love Stories.
• The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on Romance as the Emotional B-Plot in Speculative Fiction.
• Charlie Stross (Cat Valente) on Operating Narrative Machinery: Thoughts on Writing Pt 3.
• Juliette Wade on Making a City Work: A worldbuilding hangout report.
• Strange Horizons (Genevieve Valentine) on Intertitles: Tinker Tailor Soldier Sci-Fi: Espionage and the Speculative.
• Tor.com (Stubby the Rocket) on I Hope For Your Sake You Are Initiating a Mating Ritual: Weird Mating in SFF.
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on 10 Worst Mistakes That Authors of Alternate History Make.
• A Dribble of Ink (Stina Leicht) on The Music Behind the Novels.
• Jim C. Hines on Writers of the Future and Scientology.
• Ecstatic Days (Jeff VanderMeer) on The Situation: Analyzing Story from a Writer’s Point of View.
• The Qwillery (Delilah S. Dawson) on Want a Wicked Vacation? Try a Parallel Universe.
• Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) )on Forgotten Film: The Phantom (1996).
• The Space Review (Dwayne A. Day) the history of predictions about colonizing Mars. [via Gravity Lens]
• Black Gate (Ryan Harvey) on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars, Part 4: Thuvia, Maid of Mars.
• PCWorld on Ebook Publishers Want Library Borrowing to Be Difficult.
• SFX on The A-Z Of John Carter: A.
• SFX on Sci-Fi & Fantasy’s 14 Greatest Romances.
• Yahoo on Love and Sci-Fi: The 5 Most Bizarre Science Fiction TV Love Stories.

Art

• Spaceship concept art by Dima Goryainov.
• Steampunk Illustrations and Computer-generated Imagery.
• The NeverDead Digital Art Exhibition Gallery.
• The Art of Penguin Science Fiction: Table of contents.
• @ItsArtMag: “I am a prisoner inside” by ali-kiani-amin.
• @CoolVibe: “Archeologists of Shadows” by .
• @Ski-Ffy: Retro Book Cover: The Other Log Of Phileas Fogg by Philip José Farmer.
• @Ski-Ffy: Retro Book Cover: WHat Mad Universe? by Fredric Brown.

More Fun Stuff

• Video: Rocket Science Tutorial. [via Gizmodo]
• LEGO Jabba the Hutt.
• Webcomic: Tara Normal.

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