SF Tidbits for 2/3/12
- Publisher’s Weekly (Charlene Brusso) interviews Caitlin R. Kiernan.
- Reddit interviews Myke Cole.
- Fantasy Matters (Peter McClean) interviews Nick Harkaway.
- [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author John R. Fultz.
- Chuck Wendig interviews Myke Cole.
- Night Owl Paranormal interviews KV Taylor.
- A Word’s Worth interviews Theodora Goss.
- 3rdWard interviews Mary Robinette.
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Rod Rees.
- Small Beer Podcast with Julie Day, Gavin Grant, Michael J. DeLuca and Three Messages and a Warning.
- Fiction Frontiers interviews Matt Taylor (podcast).
- The Agony Column interviews Stan Lee (podcast).
- Key West Literary Seminar features Douglas Coupland &William Gibson. [via Fred Kiesche]
News
- Strange Horizons Changes for the Fiction Department.
- J.A. Konrath Responds to GalleyCat Interview with Jamie Raab.
- The Order of the Stick becomes The Highest Funded Comic on Kickstarter.
Events
- Science Fiction Foundation SF Criticism Masterclass 2012.
- StarShipSofa Online Writers Workshop.
- Holodeck Workshop How To Succeed With Your KICKSTARTER Project.
- Reminder: Spectrum Fantastic Art LIVE! [via Galen Dara at Functional Nerds]
Articles
- Nancy Fulda on What Readers Teach Us.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: The Book Trade.
- Damien Walter Grintalis on Women in Horror Month.
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt on VLog: How To Respond To Reviews.
- My Journal Courier (Nick Capo) on Commentary: Understandable surge in fantasy, science fiction.
- Juliette Wade on Dealing with chronological breaks in your story.
- The Outer Alliance (Jennifer Pelland) on Machine.
- io9 (Meredith Woerner) on The Scariest Ghost Movies Of All Time.
- Trent Jamieson on Cover Joy and New Things.
- Magical Words (Kalayna) on Covers in the Age of Change.
- Black Gate (Brian Murphy) on Transcendent fantasy, or politics as usual?
- Tor.com (Jo Walton) on Ken Grimwood’s Replay.
- Blastr lists 8 fan campaigns that saved series and 14 that failed.
- Tor.com (David G. Hartwell) on David Drake’s Hammer’s Slammers Stories.
- Reason Magazine (Gregory Benford) on A Partial Space Science Fiction Reading List.
Art
- Futuristic Illustrations – Shichigoro-Shingo.
- concept ships: Animated concept spaceships.
- 25 Cool Mega Man Fanart And Illustrations.
- The Alien World – The Complete Illustrated Guide.
More Fun Stuff
- Next-Gen Spacesuit: Slimmer with New Accessories. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Geek Gear: Firefly ‘Reavers BBQ’ Shirt.
- Biohazard and Zombie Crime Scene Tape.
- Nerf gun gets the steampunk treatment. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Facebookers: Read an exceprt of Fair Coin by E.C. Myers.
- Read Warlord Of Mars: Fall Of Barsoom #1.