SF Tidbits for 3/14/12
Interviews and Profiles
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Lissa Price.
- Lightspeed (Robyn Lupo) interviews Mary Rosenblum.
- Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Ted Kosmatka.
- Julia Sherred interviews Tobias Buckell (podcast).
- Fantasy Matters (Nathan Ilten) interviews David Kowalski.
- SFWA (Helen Merrick) interviews Connie Willis.
- The Functional Nerds interviews Gail Carriger and Mur Lafferty (podcast).
- Northampton Chronicle interviews Alan Moore.
- Black Gate (Bill Ward) interviews Nathan Long.
- Suvudu (Matt Staggs) Take Five with Tim Pratt.
- Suvudu (Danielle Rollins) interviews Caitlin Kittredge.
- Functional Nerds (Patrick Hester and John Anealio) interviews Gail Carriger and Mur Lafferty.
- @Inside Google Books: Anne Rice (video).
- Penticton Herald interviews George R.R. Martin.
News
- SFWA Announces Honorees of the 2012 Solstice Awards.
- Amazon.com Renews $25,000 Grant to Lambda Literary’s Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices.
- The Straits of Galahesh giveaway.
- Now Posted: StarShipSofa #206.
- Hobbit pub in Southampton threatened with legal action. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Long space missions “may damage eyesight”.
- Nick Sagan and John Scalzi to appear on Alien Encounters on the Science Channel.
Events
Articles
- Barnes and Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on Rub Out the Words.
- Rachelle Gardner on How Does a Publishing Auction Work?
- Juliette Wade on Writing Action Sequences: a process of layering and research.
- Chuck Wendig on 25 Things You Should Know About Creativity.
- Inkpunks (Wendy Wagner) on Let’s get away from it all!
- Paolo Bacigalupi on The Drowned Cities.
- io9 (Mary Kate Jasper and Charlie Jane Anders) on 10 Ultra-Weird Science Fiction Novels that Became Required Reading.
- Jo Walton is Thinking about buying a Kindle.
- CNet (John P. Falcone) on Kindle vs. Nook vs. iPad: Which e-book reader should you buy?
- Salon.com on What came before The Hunger Games. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Richard Weiss on The Book They Came from Inner Space.
- A Dribble of Ink (Aidan Moher) on The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
- Greg Bear on John Carter’s Greatest Challenge.
- The John Carter Files on John Carter and big-budget Schadenfreude, or how 100M gross in the first 3 days gets instantly labeled an iconic Hollywood flop.
- BBC on Doctor Who updates.
- Paleofuture on Musicians Wage War Against Robots. [via Look At This…]
Art
- Slashthree: Fairy Tales Exhibit.
- Digital 3D Art by Andrzej Sykut.
- A Princess of Art.
- Carpe Chaos concept spaceship art part 2.
- These Movies Are Old – Justin Mezzell.
- Air Geordi.
- @Artist website: “Omnidroid!” by James Gilleard.
- @Gorilla Artfare: “Steampunk Starwars – Stormtrooper & Chewwie” by Björn Hurri.
- @CoolVibe: “Swordfight” by Patricio Clarey.
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