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

• Electronic Encounters – The Special Edition – Music inspired by Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
• Music FAILS: Willy Wonka and the Remix Factory.
• Star Trek Ties.
• Zombie Plush Slippers.
• VIDEO: Space Girl! Episode 1.

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