SF Tidbits for 2/28/12

Interviews and Profiles

• The Agony Column interviews Anne Rice (podcast).
• Angry Robot Podcast interviews David Tallerman.
• Angry Robot interviews Joey HiFi.
• Darren J Guest interviews Robert Jackson Bennett.
• Kindle Fantasy Authors interviews Scott Marlowe.
• Strange Horizons Writing Climate Change: A Round Table Discussion with Julie Bertagna, Tobias Buckell, Maggie Gee, Glenda Larke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vandana Singh, and Joan Slonczewski.
• Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) interviews Peter Orullian.
• Weird Fiction Review (Jeff VanderMeer) interviews Steve Duffy.
• Wiscon Imaginary Book Club Panel with Ben Rosenbaum, Ellen Klages, Liza Furr, Richard Chwedyk, and Sumana Harihareswara (video).
• I Should Be Writing (Mur Lafferty) interviews Howard Andrew Jones (podcast).
• Democracy Now interviews Walter Mosley (video).

News

• Mark Bourne, 1961-2012.
• 2012 Arthur C Clarke Award Submissions.
• Win a Free ARC of Alan Campbell’s Damnation for Beginners.
• Michael Whelan eBook cover art to appear on print version of A Memory of Light.
• Nonstop Press announces that beginning March 24 all paper books brought thru their website will now include free download of the DRM-free mobi (Kindle) or epub (iPad, Nook) edition where available .

Events

• DAW Books Book Discussion: Westward Weird edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Karrie Hughes.

Articles

• The Sunday Guardian (Aishwarya Subramanian) on How to best snack on fantasy, and other vital questions.
• Juliette Wade on Can you “know” a character if you’re not in his/her head?
• Clarion (Brittany Lyons) on Writing What You Know.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts on Writing – Mothering – Balancing.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Cat Rambo’s Developmental Editing Checklist.
• Kristin Nador on How Star Trek Can Teach You About Character Arcs.
• Futurismic (Paul Raven) on The Future Always Wins.
• Lisa L. Hannett (Deborah Biancotti) on Keep Running.
• Susan J. Morris on Rivi… Rive… Revision (Or, How to Love the Red Pen).
• Inkpunks (Christie Yant) On Giving Up.
• Haikasoru (Nick Mamatas) on What is Magic Realism.
• Orbit Books (Elizabeth Moon) on My Fascination with ‘Good’ Characters.
• Gail Carriger on Ending a Series ~ Part 2: Emotions.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) on Star Wars: Red Harvest and Vampires from Outer Space.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Jessica Strider) reviews Synthetic Dreams by Kim Knox.
• A Dribble of Ink (Aidan Moher) reviews The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
• The Book Smugglers (Tobias S. Buckell) on Inspirations.
• L.B. Gale on Fantasy Writers: What We’re Up Against — Rowling Edition.
• L.B. Gale on A Hunger Games Tribute List: 10 Fictional Teens that Could Defeat Katniss Everdeen.
• Locus Roundtable (Karen Burnham) asks Why do you enjoy reading science fiction?

Art

• Concept ships by John Wallin Liberto.

More Fun Stuff

• A video imagining of M.C. Escher’s workspace. [via The Lensman’s Children]
• Londons.
• The Jetsons vs. The Zombie Apocalypse.