SF Tidbits for 2/29/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Staffer’s Book Review interviews Elspeth Cooper.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Howard Andrew Jones and Paul S. Kemp (podcast).
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) Take Five with Matt Forbeck.
• Mike Duran interviews Nancy Kress.
• Rue Morgue interviews Lauren Beukes.

News

• Judges announced for 2012 British Fantasy Awards.
• SFWA is redirecting Amazon.com links.
• Subterranean Press announces The Incarceration Of Captain Nebula And Other Lost Futures by Mike Resnick.
• Study says new children’s books lack reference to nature, animals. [via Creativity Hacker]
• The first lot of Frank M. Robinson’s pulp collection fetched $250,000.
• Reminder: The March 11 deadline for casting nominating ballots for the 2012 Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is fast approaching.

Events

• Fund Raiser: Help Support the  Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards.

Articles

• Book View Cafe (Sue Lange) on Weird Science: Presenting the Multiverse.
• Book View Cafe (Madeleine E. Robins) on What’s In a Name?
• Gail Carriger on How to Throw a Goodbye Parasol Protectorate Tea.
• Chuck Wendig on 25 Ways To Unfuck Your Story.
• Brainiac asks What Makes Sci-Fi Theme Songs Science-Fictional?
• Barnes and Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on Grand Schemes.
• The Barnes & Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on 9 Algorithms That Changed the Future by John MacCormick.
• Black Gate (Ryan Harvey) on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars, Part 5: The Chessmen of Mars.
• Hal Duncan on How to Write a Sentence.
• Jason Sanford on on Fun with podcasts, audio magazines, and story narration.
• Breaking History (J.J. Barrow) on The First (Cinematic) Trip to the Moon.
• Andrew Liptak on TRSF: The Best New Science Fiction.
• T.N. Tobias on Why Do We Write?
• Blastr (Marc Bernardin) on 9 sci-fi spinoffs we want and the characters who'd make us watch.
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on 10 Weirdest Science Fiction Novels That You’ve Never Read.

Art

• Concept ships by Roy Santua.
• Concept robotics by Christian Grajewski.
• Jeff Patterson’s Portfolio. (Also here.)
• @DailyDesignInspiration: “Penitence” by Julie Dillon.
• @DailyDesignInspiration: “Planetary Alignment” by Julie Dillon.
• @DailyDesignInspiration: “Samus Aran” by Julie Dillon.
• @DailyDesignInspiration: “The Lion and The Unicorn” by Julie Dillon.
• @DailyDesignInspiration: “Afternoon Walk” by Julie Dillon.
• @DailyDesignInspiration: “Diver’s Haul” by Julie Dillon.
• @DailyDesignInspiration: “Dragon Mage” by Julie Dillon.
• @DailyDesignInspiration: “Flying with the Great Dragon” by Julie Dillon.

More Fun Stuff

• Read an Excerpt from Exogene by T.C. McCarthy.
• Kickstarter page for Inspector Spacetime: The Webseries by Travis Richey. [via Forces of Geek]
• Giveaway! The Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron.
• Tournament of Superheroes: Superman Versus Batman.

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