SF Tidbits for 3/22/12

Interviews and Profiles

• The Enchanted Inkpot interviews Hilari Bell.
• Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) on Caitlín R. Kiernan.
• Fantasy Book Critic interviews David Constantine.
• The Writer and the Critic with Robert Shearman (podcast).
• Reddit interviews James L. Sutter.
• Inkpunks (Adam Israel) interviews Jay Lake.
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy interviews Vernor Vinge (podcast).
• Flames Rising interviews Matt Hughes, Liane Merciel, and Tim Pratt.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews David Constantine (podcast).
• Black Gate (Patty Templeton) interviews Frederic S. Durbin.
• Flickering Myth (Trevor Hogg) interviews John Knoll.

News

• Strange Horizons is looking for an international Fiction Editor.
• Stone Telling 7 TOC and update!
• New Orbit Short Fiction deals!
• New Companion Announced for Doctor Who.
• Feds Intercept Pot Shipments To St. Martin’s Press Publishing House.

Articles

• The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on Explorations of Religion in Science Fiction…but what about Fantasy?
• Rachelle Gardner on What’s a Typical Advance?
• SF Novelists (James Alan Gardner) on The Skill List Project: Fight Scene Basics.
• Janice Hardy on How Much do you Need to Describe Your Setting?
• AMC (John Scalzi) on How YA like “The Hunger Games” Came to Rule Fantasy and Scifi Films.
• Chuck Wendig on Ten Things You Should Know About Writing Screenplays.
• Shimmer (Cory) on Responding to Reviews.
• A Dribble of Ink (Myke Cole) on So Long, New York Times Review of Books (With Apologies to Dad).
• Book Lamp on How Long is the Average Book? A Concrete Answer to a Longstanding Writing FAQ.
• The John Carter Files (Dotar Sojat) on Our view: It’s now clear, after yesterday’s announcement – Disney viewed John Carter as a hospice case all along.
• Weird Fiction Review (Jesse Bullington) on Long Live the Underwolf: On Discovering Tristan Egolf’s Kornwolf.
• Weird Fiction Review (Ekaterina Sedia) on Werewolves.
• Gaming as Women on Dear Wizards: Why Failing Less at Gender in 5E Would Be Good For Your Bottom Line.
• Gwenda Bond on Sneak Peek At Some Cover Art? Anyone?
• Comic Book Resources on Joe Hill on the fall, and rise, of thought balloons. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Tor.com (Melissa Ann Singer) on Where to Start With the Epic Saint-Germain Vampire Cycle.
• Alastair Reynolds on Wordy Rappinghood.
• Lisa Paitz Spindler on Danger Gal Friday: Dejah Thoris.
• Black Gate (Scott Taylor) on Art of the Iconic Female #1; Dejah Thoris.
• Slate Magazine asks Hunger Games trilogy: How will they make a movie out of Mockingjay? [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Jeff VanderMeer on Annihilation: New Novel Finished.
• LitReactor (Rajan Khanna) on Slaying Dragons: Fantasy and Video Games.
• Lawrence Person on Henry Kuttner’s The Dark World.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Write Tip: 5 Tricks To Adapting A Well Known Story For Fiction.
• io9 on 10 Times Batman Acted Like An Absolute Lunatic.
• LitReactor (Jon Korn) on 10 Science Fiction Books That I Love (And You Will At Least Like A Lot).
• LitReactor (Rob W. Hart) on Top 10 Ways To Make The Walking Dead Less Stupid, Revisited.
• CollegeHumor on 10 Reasons Why The Walking Dead Should Just Kill Carl.

Art

• Beautiful Collection of Digital Fantasy Illustrations.
• Zombies Artwork by James Ryman.
• 30 Artworks Inspired by Daft Punk.
• “Twisted Essence” Exhibition By The Hysterical Minds Collective.
• Digital Paintings And Concept Art By Tomas Honz.
• Re-imagined Movie Posters – Olly Moss.
• Concept ships by Joe MacCarthy.
• Free Sci-Fi Wallpapers.
• Free Wallpaper from The Shadow Rising Ebook.
• @CoolVibe: “Droojun” by Hamid Ibrahim.
• @CoolVibe: “God of Death” by Atilgan Asikuzun.
• @CoolVibe: “Sewer Dwelling Monster” by Andrei Pervukhin.

More Fun Stuff

• INFOGRAPHIC: Dystopian Fiction on Goodreads.
• Peek inside Stanley Kubrick's annotated copy of the Shining novel.
• Catch up on Eureka!

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