SF Tidbits for 3/16/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Outer Alliance Podcast interviews Jennifer Pelland.
• Chomu Press interview with Quentin S. Crisp (video).
• Bastard Books interviews Myke Cole.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Peadar Ó Guilín.
• [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author Tad Williams.
• Chuck Wendig interviews Nathan Long.
• Keith Brooke interviews James Lovegrove.
• The Debut Review interviews E.C. Myers.
• SFWA (Cat Rambo) interviews Jason Heller.
• Omnivoracious (Chris Schluep) interviews Ted Kosmatka.
• Fictional Frontiers interviews Sam Witwer (podcast).
• Interviewed at SF in SF: Ayize Jama-Everett and Ryan Boudinot (podcast).

News

• Schofield teacher on leave after parent complains of ‘pornographic’ sci-fi book. [via SF Site]
• Angry Robot Books Now recruiting – US-based Sales & Marketing Manager.
• Book View Cafe Launches Beyond Grimm: Tales Newly Twisted.
• Alan Garner to conclude Weirdstone of Brisingamen trilogy.
• Tales to Terrify announces The Bram Stoker Awards Short Fiction Initiative.
• Two new short stories from Orbit Short Fiction.
• TNT Announces Summer Premieres, including Falling Skies.

Articles

• Peta Freestone on You’re in, what next? 10 tips for preparing for the Clarion Writers’ Workshop.
• Weird Fiction Review (Theodora Goss) on A Brief History of Monsters.
• Interfictions Zero (Jennifer Miller) on Living Below and Between: Interstitiality and Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Scarcity and Abundance.
• Malinda Lo on the cover for her new novel, Adaptation.
• A. Lee Martinez on Finding Your Thark.
• Publishers Weekly (Matia Burnett) on NBCC Turns the Spotlight on YA.
• L.B. Gale on Binary Oppositions and Storytelling.
• Scott D. Parker on In Defense of John Carter.
• Tobias Buckell on crowd funding a novel (video).
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter on Enhanced E-Books.
• The Qwillery (Matt Adams) on The Super World of False Documents: Bringing a Superhero World to Life.
• Futurismic (Brenda Cooper) on Hope for a Global Spring?
• Cheryl Morgan reviews Osama by Lavie Tidhar.
• Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) reviews The Straits of Galahesh by Bradley Beaulieu.
• USA Today on Fans are hungry for more Hunger Games.
• Newswise on The Hunger Games is Not Just Kid Stuff. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• DVICE (Evan Ackerman) asks on Should we re-engineer our species to save our planet?
• io9 (Ben Vrignon And Jennifer Griffith) on 10 Biggest Comebacks in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
• Wil Wheaton on If Robocop was a bad 80s sit-com.

Art

• 12 Alternate Book Covers.
• Fantasy Ink: Neal Adams Tarzan Covers.
• Minimal Movie Poster: “Escape From New York” by Adam Armstrong.

More Fun Stuff

• John H. Stevens: A Fiction Mini-Collection.
• Sci Fi Radio Theater: Original Science Fiction Radio Play Podcasts.

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