SF Tidbits for 4/20/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Chuck Wendig interviews Dana Fredsti.
• SFFWRTCHT chat with Ursula Vernon.
• Omnivoracious (Chris Schluep) has Facebook questions for George R.R. Martin.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt profiles Matthew Cook.
• CrowsnBones interviews Laird Barron.
• Locus ICFA Podcast: The Monstrous.
• Suvudu (Fictional Frontiers) interviews Jeff Grub.
• Aliette de Bodard interviews Djibril al-Ayad and Fabio Fernandes.
• My Bookish Ways interviews GJ Koch.
• The First Million Words features Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley) interviews Anne Rice.

News

• RIP: Jonathan Frid of Dark Shadows.
• Patrick Ness Joins Kitschies.
• Ellen Datlow’s KGB Photos April 18, 2012.
• Scholastic Acquires Five-Book Middle Grade Series by Bestselling Authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare.
• Locus Awards Weekend.
• Novelist Sues Makers of Assassin’s Creed Video Game.
• Sci-Fi Villains Raise Money For Women's Charity, Daleks Race.
• Cheap Ebook: The January Dancer by Michael Flynn.
• Now posted: The Summer edition of Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation.
• Mysterious company backed by film director James Cameron and Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt promises to “create a new industry” that will overlay space exploration and natural resources.
• Chris Roberson quits DC Comics, blasts company's ethics.

Events

• May 8th: Discussion of Poe at the Mount Vernon Public Library with Ellen Datlow, Gregory Frost, John Langan, and Laird Barron.
• Paolo Bacigalupi’s tour shedule for The Drowned Cities.
• Work Has Already Begun on the Locus Kickstarter project.

Articles

• SFWA (Marie Brennan) on Would You Rather Be Wrong or Right?
• Malinda Lo On writing the first draft.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: The Changing Definition of Publishing.
• Book Life Now (James L. Sutter) on Death to the Chainmail Bikini.
• Book Life Now (Jeremy L.C. Jones) on First Reades.
• Fantasy Cafe (N. K. Jemisin) on Women in SF&F Month.
• Deborah J. Ross (Sarah Zettel) on The Culinary Secrets of Vampires.
• L.B. Gale on Nine Heroic Animal Deaths in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Changing Definition of Publishing.
• Brenda Cooper on Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman.
• The Night Bazaar (Carol Wolf) on Just Because it’s Cool.
• The Night Bazaar (Thomas Morrissey) on Steampunk=Engineers + Goth + Brown.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Jessica Strider) on Silent Movie Reviews.
• John H. Stevens on Writing And Thinking And Reading But Mostly Writing.
• Technology Review on Neal Stephenson on Science Fiction, Building Towers 20 Kilometers High … and Insurance. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show (Michaele Jordan) on The Perils of the Past.
• Staffer’s Boook Review (Michael J. Sullivan) on Character Agency.
• Innsmouth Free Press (G.W. Thomas) on Writing The Mythos: Creepy Cryptids.
• Smart Pop Books (Kristen Kidder) on The New Normal.
• Huff Post (Kris LoPresto) on 53 Reasons Why We Need a New Star Trek TV Series.
• Topless Robot on 10 Marvel Supervillians Who Became Superheroes.

Art

• Joel Hustak Gallery.
• Illustrations by Yuta Onoda.
• Jennifer Healy Gallery.
• Robot concept art by Daryl Mandryk.
• Concept spaceships by Daryl Mandryk.
• 25 Dieselpunk Themed Desktop Wallpapers.
• @CoolVibe: “Equinox” by Vitaly Alexius.
• @CoolVibe: “Team Chow with Alge and Alex 7” by Jana Schirmer.
• @ItsArtMag: “Medusa” by Gondwana (Daren Horley).

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt: The Mongoliad: Book One by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo,et. al.
• Women Fighters In Reasonable Armor. [via A Dribble of Ink]
• The Super Moon of May 2012.
• 18 stunning sci-fi guitars that'll shred your geek world.
• Spitzer telescope brings 'infrared wonders' home.
• Rare Behind the Scenes Photos of Star Wars. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Video: Jetman.

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