SF Tidbits for 2/22/12
Interviews and Profiles
- The Functional Nerds interviews Natania Barron and Tom Merritt (podcast).
- Fantasy Faction interviews Joe Abercrombie (podcast).
- Lightspeed (Wendy Wagner) interviews Genevieve Valentine.
- Lightspeed (The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy) interviews Daniel H. Wilson.
- Galleycat (Maryann Yin) interviews Lauren DeStefano and Moira Young.
- Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) interviews Gardner Dozois.
- Suvudu (Shawk Speakman) interviews Matthew Pearl.
News
- Norman Spinrad Offers His Original Screenplay For Bug Jack Barron, Called “one Of The 100 Greatest Films Never Made,” On Amazon After 4 Decades.
- Computer Scientist Ramez Naam Signs Two-Book Deal with Angry Robot.
- Stephen King to release audio digital story.
Events
- Bruce Sterling will give away and sign some of his books Saturday Feb. 25th 5pm-7pm at ATX Hackerspace in Austin, TX.
- Tobias Buckell’s Arctic Rising book tour.
- March 24th 2012 – StarShipSofa presents a StarWars Music Extravaganza.
Articles
- Spiral Galaxy on Evaporating Genres for Best Related Book.
- Chuck Wendig on 25 Things I Want To Say To So-Called “Aspiring” Writers.
- Tansy Rayner Roberts on Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy Who are Great At Their Job.
- Ekaterina Sedia on Russian Language Harry Potter Fandom is Awesome.
- Graham Edwards on Ten Reasons Not to Write.
- Gollancz (Michael J. Ward) on Dabbling with Destiny.
- Charlie Stross (Cat Valente) on Life With and Without Animated Ducks: The Future Is Gender Distributed.
- Juliette Wade on Translating “issues” from our world into fictional worlds.
- Adrienne Kress on Why I Love Steampunk.
- Grasping for the Wind (Steve Davidson) on Science Fiction is Bigger Than You Think!
- Grasping for the Wind (Tobias S. Buckell) Writes Home.
- Kat Howard on It’s That Easy.
- io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on 10 Science Fiction and Fantasy Endings We’d Like to See More Often.
- Inkpunks (Sandra Wickham) on Where’s Your Head At?
- Bibliophile Stalker (Charles Tan) reviews The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman.
- Tor.com (Brit Mandelo) on Reading Joanna Russ: Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts (1985).
- Gail Carriger on Parasol Protectorate Omnibus Vol. 2.
- Patrick Rothfuss on Concerning Hobbits, Love, and Movie Adaptations. [via James Nicoll]
- Edward M. Lerner on Alien aliens (more or less).
- Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Jessica Strider) reviews audiobook of Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson, narrated by Michael Kramer.
- Bibliophile Stalker reviews The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman.
- Josh Vogt reviews on Count to a Trillion by John C. Wright, on When We Were Executioners by J.M. McDermott and Alien Contact edited by Marty Halpern.
- Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Forgotten Film: The Rocketeer (1991).
- Gamma Squad on How Much Time And Money Would It Take To Build The Death Star?
- SFX on Guilty Sci-Fi Pleasures.
- Blastr (Matthew Jackson) lists 24 great sci-fi guest stars from 500 episodes of The Simpsons.
Art
- Chris Foss Gallery.
- @CoolVibe: “The Lost Fleet: Dreadnought” by David Demaret.
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