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

• Kevin Hearne Book Tour and Release Party.

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.

More Fun Stuff

• Avengers Assemble: New Character Posters.
• The Hundred Acre Wood Avengers.
• Bradley P. Beaulieu’s Interactive Map of The Lays of Anuskaya.
• Fantastic Flashbacks: Mad‘s Superman:The Movie.

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