SF Tidbits for 2/3/12

Interviews and Profiles

• 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.