SF Tidbits for 3/15/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Civilian Reader interviews Gail Carriger.
- Flames Rising (Jeremy L.C. Jones) interviews Robin D. Laws.
- Terri Bruce interviews Sue Burke.
- The Author Chronicles (J. Thomas Ross) interviews Keith R. A. DeCandido.
- When Gravity Fails interviews Paul Kearney.
- The Boston Phoenix interviews R.L. Stine.
- Keith Brooke interviews Tony Ballantyne,
- Keith Brooke interviews Paul Di Filippo.
- Keith Brooke interviews Adam Roberts.
News
- CBC Books – The second annual CBC Bookie Awards.
- London Bids Unopposed for 2014 Worldcon.
- Cassandra Clare Inks Deal for YA Fantasy Series.
- John Joseph Adams Announces new anthology: Robot Uprisings.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica goes to e-pub only.
- Weird Fiction Review’s Twelve Days of Monsters: Celebrating the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.
- AMC Theaters To Host Marvel Movie Marathon.
Events
- Anne Lyle and Andy Remic Signing, Waterstones Mcr Arndale, March 31st.
- Robert J. Sawyer – Triggers book tour dates.
- Philip K. Dick: Worlds Out of Joint Conference in Dortmund, Germany, 15-18 November, Call for Papers.
Articles
- The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on Characters’ Age: Musings on How it Affects Writing.
- Rachelle Gardner on What’s an Author-Agent Agreement?
- Chuck Wendig on Shot Through The Heart: Your Story’s Throughline.
- Scott Edelman on Kurt Vonnegut didn’t think much of science fiction.
- Inkpunks (Howard Tayler) on Satisfactory Sub-plots, Now With Pictures.
- Locus Roundtable on Nonfiction.
- Elizabeth Moon on Research Responsibilities.
- Kay Kenyon on The story that won’t. [via Deborah J. Ross]
- Juliette Wade on Religion in Worldbuilding.
- Night Shade Books (Carol Wolf) on A Peripatetic Writer’s Life.
- Innsmouth Free Press( G.W. Thomas) on Writing The Mythos: The Diary Of A Madman – Insanity And Horror Writers.
- Boing Boing (Cory Doctorow) on What Do Robots Do All Day? A kids' book from the future.
- Blastr (Matthew Jackson) on Carl Sagan's son on the one thing alien movies always get wrong.
- SpecTechnique (Nick Tramdack) on Flip the Story.
- Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Forgotten Film: I Married A Monster From Outer Space (1958).
- DAW Books on Book Discussion: Intruder by C.J. Cherryh.
- DVICE (Evan Ackerman) on With crowdsourced funding, science wins and so do you.
- Black Gate (Scott Taylor) on Art of the Genre: Jean Giraud ‘Moebius’ 1938-2012.
- Real Science: Gizmag on The blistering hot exoplanet where it snows. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Cracked.com on 6 Horrifying Implications of the Harry Potter Universe. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Topless Robot on The 8 Worst Episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
- The Mary Sue on 10 Most Successful Failures.
- L.B. Gale on 12 Best Words and Phrases from Invented Languages in Science Fiction/Fantasy.
Art
- Minimalist Movie Posters: Inception ,The Avengers, Coraline, Tron Legacy, Blade Runner, Iron Giant, A Clockwork Orang, Watchmen, The Hobbit, The Dark Knight, The Big Bang Theory.
- The 17th Exhibit: Illuminate IV by The Luminarium.
- Batman Re-Imagined.
- Gray Morrow – Sci-Fi Digest Covers & Interior Illos ~ 1960’s. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- @What an ART: “Avengers in the Style of Ancient Egyptian Artists” by Christian Nauck.
- @Avalanche Software Art Blog: “Worf Smash” by Sam Nielson.
- @CoolVibe: “The Painter” by Patricio Clarey.
More Fun Stuff
Actually, Charles, that Inkpunks post referenced above as being by Sandra Wickham was a guest post by Howard Tayler.
My fault — fixed!