SF Tidbits for 3/21/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Lightspeed (Christie Yant) interviews Kathleen Ann Goonan.
- Lightspeed (Jennifer Konieczny) interviews David Barr Kirtley.
- Lightspeed (Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy) interviews Ian McDonald.
- Weird Fiction Review (Jeff VanderMeer) interviews China Mieville.
- The Functional Nerds interviews Saladin Ahmed and Tobias Buckell (podcast).
- Book View Cafe (Katharine Eliska Kimbriel) interviews Lois Gresh.
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Nick Harkaway.
- Suvudu (Danielle Rollins) interviews Maurissa Guibord.
- Suvudu (Eric Geller) interviews Troy Denning.
- Suvudu (Danielle Rollins) interviews Maurissa Guibord.
- The Qwillery interviews David Kowalski (plus Giveaway).
News
- 24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced.
- Brit Mandelo joins Strange Horizons as fiction editor.
- Game of Thrones Pledge Your Allegiance Promo.
- 24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced.
- 2012 Philip K. Dick Award Judges Named.
- Philip Pullman’s fairytales to arrive in September.
- Alan Dean Foster’s Sagramanda optioned. [via io9]
- Kickstarter project Singularity & Co. seeks to reprint out-of-print science fiction. [via Sci-Fi Fan Letter]
- Adam Christopher Joins Angry Robot’s Four-Book Club.
Events
- Weirdfictionreview.com’s Twelve Days of Monsters: Celebrating the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.
- Arc Magazine call for submissions: The Future Always Wins.
Articles
- Chuck Wendig on Ten Things You Should Know About Endings.
- The Passionate Foodie on Authors, Alcohol & Accolades: Volume 5.
- Weird Fiction Review (Nancy Hightower) on The Grotesque Menageries of Greg Simkins.
- io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on 10 Coolest Sidekicks in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
- Rose Lemberg on A Single Copper Coin.
- Alan Campbell on Why John Carter was a flop.
- HBOWatch (Hans Ericsson) on How Battlestar Galactica Might Work on HBO.
- Salon on The behind-the-scenes story of the readers and booksellers who launched the Hunger Games franchise. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Blastr lists Duran Duran + 20 more rock bands whose names came straight from sci-fi.
- Science Fiction (Michelle Ealey) on Women’s History Month: Top 10 Female Fantasy Characters.
- Egotripland on 8 Classic Rap Album Covers Remixed with Comic Book Characters..
- Screen Junkies on The Dr. Is In: The Actors Who Have Played Doctor Who.
- Listverse lists Top 10 Films With The Best Special Effects.
- The Green Water Blog on 10 Tips to Enhance Your Fiction Reading Experience.
- Flavorwire lists Dystopic Books Where Kids Meet Tragic Fates.
- Flavorwire lists The 10 Best Authors of Children’s Literature.
Art
- The Weird’s Bestiary.
- Akira Kurosawa’s Paintings and Movie Frames Side by Side.
- Cover Art and Illustrations by Marc Sasso.
- Epic Illustrations by Justin Mezzell.
- @Avalanche Software Art Blog: “Megamind 2” by Ben Simonsen.
- @CoolVibe: “Temple of Power” by Udara Chinthaka.
- @CoolVibe: “New generation” by Piotr Foksowicz.
More Fun Stuff
Hi there,
when I click on the Paul Di Filippo link I can only see a page written in Japanese.
Is there some other page/site written in English? Thank you. T
Weird. That page appears in English for me.
Curiouser and curiouser. I tried IE, Opera and MF (Mozilla Firefox), and in ALL of them I can see only a text in Japanese. The address is http://www.pauldifilippo.com Btw, I live in Europe and do not use Japanese alphabet at all. T
I thought my laptop might be infected, so tried also my htc mobile phone (runs on Android 2.3), and even there the Paul Di Filippo site is in Japanese. What´s this? Am I the only one who sees his site in Japanese? T
Oh! My misunderstanding. I thought you meant the link that we received via Paul. I see the same thing at Paul’s site. I’ll ask him.
Host troubles! I’ll update the link to his newer hangout, http://theinferior4.livejournal.com/
Thank you. Plus a bonus – 4 of my favourite writers, that´s perfect! T