SF Tidbits for 3/23/12

Interviews and Profiles

• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Stina Leicht.
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies (Kate Marshall) interviews Megan Arkenberg.
• Chuck Wendig interviews Ari Marmell.
• Black Gate (Bill Ward) interviews Nathan Long.
• [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author Teresa Frohock.
• Suvudu (Fictional Frontiers) interviews Ted Kosmatka (podcast).
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Lissa Price.
• Galactic Suburbia Episode 56 (podcast).
• Weird Weird Fiction Review (Jeff VanderMeer) interviews Gemma Files.
• Sense of Wonder (Cristina Jurado) interviews Alastair Reynolds.
• Airship Ambassador interviews Ekaterina Sedia. [via The World SF Blog]
• Mulholland Books interviews Joe Lansdale (Part I). [via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine]
• Neatorama profiles William Shatner.
• Sci-Fi Songs (John Anealio) interviews Teresa Frohock.

News

• Obituary: Gene DeWeese.
• Bram Stoker Awards™ to be webcast live on March 31, 2012.
• Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four forecast for Hollywood remake.
• Stephen Fry and Ian McKellen Save Hobbit Bar.
• Subterranean Press announces When Will You Rise? by Mira Grant.
• Edward Willett narrrates Matthew Hughes’ The Other.
• IDW announces new Dredd.

Events

• The Bram Stoker Awards presentation will be webcast LIVE on March 31st.

Articles

• Book View Cafe (Nancy Jane Moore) on Science Finds Fiction Is Good for Us.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Quality.
• Janice Hardy on Going All the Way: Should You Write the Whole Trilogy Before You Query?
• Marie Brennan on Writing Fight Scenes: Beats.
• Kirkus Book Reviews (Paolo Bacigalupi) on The Invisible Dystopia.
• Barnes and Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on Angelmaker.
• Kirkus Reviews (Paolo Bacigalupi) on The Invisible Dystopia.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on The Importance Of Strategy & A Career Plan For Writers.
• Lists of Note (Larry Niven) on How the Universe Works.
• Jamie Todd Rubin on How Isaac Asimov made me feel better about my current hiatus from fiction-writing.
• Barebones ezine on Robert Bloch on TV Part Eleven – The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
• Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) reviews Tales of the Far West.
• io9 on Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Series That Started Out as Trilogies.
• The Atlantic asks Will Kindle's Free Samples Change the Structures of Plots?
• Campaign for the American Reader on Five dark YA novels set in post-climate-change worlds. [via Lit Lists]

Art

• The Art Of Black Library.
• @CoolVibe: “Leviathan ” by Giuliano Bròcani.
• @ItsArtMag: Concept art Anthony Devine.
• @CGHub: “Legion” by Daryl Mandryk
• @CGHub: “golem” by ValorMaria Trepalina.

More Fun Stuff

• Neil Gaiman on How To Read Gene Wolfe (from 2002).
• Amazing 200,000 galaxies — all in one photo. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Rico The Zombie (video).
• Zombie sleep mask.
• Classic Winnie the Pooh Characters as the Avengers.

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