SF Tidbits for 3/9/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Suzanne Johnson interviews Jana Oliver.
• Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist interviews Saladin Ahmed.
• Chuck Wendig interviews Paul Elwork.
• SFWA (Cat Rambo) interviews Myke Cole.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Seanan McGuire.
• [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author Myke Cole.
• Omnivoracious (Laura Miller) chats with Ellen Ullman.
• Fictional Frontiers interviews Troy Denning (podcast).
• Matt Forbeck interviews Chuck Wendig.
• The Qwillery interviews Christina Henry (+ Giveaway).
• Upcoming: Fantasy author Jon Sprunk will join r/Fantasy for an AMA this Saturday, Mar 10 at 8PM Central.

News

• Andy Remic Wants Your Money! (it’s for a Very Good Cause…).
• Subterranean Press selling Limited Edition of Jeff VanderMeer’s Finch.
• AI Creates Its Own Video Game.
• Coming Soon to Syfy channel: Leprechaun’s Revenge starring William Devane and Billy Zane.
• Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing.

Events

• The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings presents Rudy Rucker Brendan Carney Byrne.
• Penguin Twitter Book Club for March w/ live author chat: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness.

Articles

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.
• The Book Smugglers (A. Lee Martinez) on Inspirations & Influences.
• Fantasy Matters (Jen Miller) on The Fantastic in the Fine Arts: Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty.
• Suvudu Take Five with Paula Brandon.
• Nancy Kress on Writers and Books.
• Ellen Datlow on All my ebooks in one place for your easy purchase.
• Dan Simmons on What’s Next [via James Nicoll]
• John Scalzi on The Collusion Case Against Publishers.
• Cory Doctorow on iZombie books 2 and 3: stylish comedy-horror comic goes from strength to strength.
• Small Beer Podcast 7: Zombie Plans, Beer & Maureen F. McHugh’s “The Naturalist”.
• Space.com on John Carter Director Doesn’t Stray From Sci-Fi Roots.
• Tap Milwaukee on After ‘John Carter,’ five more Martian stories
• File 770 on Bleep My Dad Says About the Fan Hugos.
• SFScope on Welcome Back, Carter: NYRSF Readings Journey to Barsoom.
• Salon on A Superman art mystery. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on 11 SFF Series I Read And Was Surprised To Love.
• DVICE on 10 predictions 1950s futurism got right and wrong about the year 2000. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• WhatCulture lists 10 Stalled Film & TV Adaptations That We Want To See Made. [via Stephen Gordon]
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Jessica Strider) Cool New YA Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Novels.
• Sci-Fi Songs (John Anealio) on The Top 6 Songs of Fantasy Author Stina Leicht.

Art

• New Star Wars Art from “Star Wars Identities” Exhibit.
• 20 Wacky and Hilarious Digital Caricatures.
• Amateur Rocketeer Derek Deville's Qu8k Rocket Flies to 120,000+ Feet (Video).
• @LCS: “Escape from Hat” by Brian Taylor.
• @CoolVibe: “Dragonslayer” by Peter Kovacs.
• @CoolVibe:Grand Space Opera” by Gerardo Barbero.
• @ItsArtMag: “A Journey to the Tale” by designtu.

More Fun Stuff

• Infographic: The Fiction to Reality Timeline.
• NSFW word-for-word comics adaptation of A Princess of Mars.
• Adventures of the League of STEAM – “Curses”.
• Extract from Glen Cook’s A Path to Coldness of Heart.
• Star Trek’s Enterprise Command Chair Cake.

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