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
News
- 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.
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