SF Tidbits for 3/20/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Airship Ambassador interviews Ekaterina Sedia (1, 2).
- AuthorCulture interviews Saladin Ahmed.
- Fantasy Faction interviews Anne Lyle.
- World SF Blog interviews Zen Cho.
- Sandra Ulbrich Almazan interviews Sue Burke.
- Darke Conteur interviews Kenneth Mark Hoover.
- If You’re Just Joining Us interviews Eugene Myers (podcast).
- Suvudu (Matt Staggs) Take Five with Galen Beckett.
- Statesman (Joe Gross) interviews Stina Leicht.
- Fantasy Faction (Elloise Hopkins) interviews Anne Lyle.
- The Qwillery interviews Eliza Gayle.
- Literary Musings interviews Myke Cole.
News
- Reddit Adds Site for Literary Videos.
- Suzanne Collins Is Best-Selling Kindle Author of All Time.
- Saladin Ahmed hints at Books 2 & 3 of Throne of the Crescent Moon.
- Benderspink to Unravel Roddenberry’s Days Missing.
- 27-Year-Old Doctor Who Fan with Terminal Brain Cancer Seeks TARDIS Urn for His Ashes. [via Paul Di Filippo]
Events
Articles
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt on How Screenplay Structure Can Help Plotting & Pace In Your Novels.
- Charles Stross on A writing experiment I plan to try.
- Janice Hardy on I Want to Write Fiction. So, Um, Where Do I Start?
- Clarion (John Walters) on Letting Go.
- Chuck Wendig on Ten Things You Should Know About Setting.
- Cheryl Morgan on Telling your Highs from your Epics.
- National Post (Hiromi Goto) on Why so dark, YA?
- Lisa Hannett (Tansy Rayner Roberts) on Small Goals.
- Inkpunks (John Remy) on Getting a Handle on Your Short Story Queue.
- Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Making People Laugh: The Secret Art of Funny Fiction.
- Locus Roundtable: Poetry.
- Publishing Perspectives (Edward Nawotka) asks Which of the US Big Six Will Be First to Merge?
- Gail Carriger on The Songs in Timeless.
- Pádraig Ó Méalóid on Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane: The Story So Far (March 1993 – March 2012). [via The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log]
- Electric Velocipede on Let’s Send John Away!
- Tor.com (Douglas Lain) on Time Travel in the Second Person: The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold.
- Tor Books on Neal Asher’s Zero Point Artwork Launch.
- Peter Damien on Ghost Love Score.
- Functional Nerds (Catherine Russell) on Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card.
- Slate Magazine on A Robot Stole My Pulitzer!! [via Paul Di Filippo]
- WSJ (Ellen Gameran) on A Museum Exhibit Shows Videogames in a New Light.
- Salon (Nicholas Carr) on the evolution of communication technology and how the Web is destroying the way we think. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- The Grid (Joshua Ostroff) on How comic books bridge the generation gap.
- The Guardian on Suzanne Collins: the queen of teen fiction for tomboys.
- Comic Book Resources on She Has No Head! – 25 Great Superheroine Moments. [via Whedonesque]
- Ranker on Top Sci-Fi Robots: List of Best Cyborgs, Androids from TV and Movies.
- WhatCulture (Amarpal Biring) on 10 Reasons Why James T. Kirk Is Best Star Trek Captain.
- Blastr (Andrew Liptak) on 8 actors who've worked both sides of the Star Trek/Star Wars divide.
- Cracked.com on 7 Words That Only Bad Movies Have in Their Titles.
- Tor.com (Ryan Britt) on 5 Reasons Why Will Riker Creeps Me Out.
- Wil Wheaton on This is my new show, Tabletop.
Art
- @DailyInspiration: “Red Dawn Rising” by Yohann Schepacz.
- @DailyInspiration: “Seasick on drylands” by Yohann Schepacz.
- @DailyInspiration: “Snowbots Sketch” by Yohann Schepacz.
- @DailyInspiration: “Triforce” by Yohann Schepacz.
- @DailyInspiration: “Tanhauser Gates” by Yohann Schepacz.
- @DailyInspiration: “Something something Xenobot” by Yohann Schepacz.
- @Minimal Movie Posters: “Spider-Man” by tom-kneeshaw.
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