SF Tidbits for 4/24/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Suicide Girls (Alex Dueben) interviews Caitlin R. Kiernan.
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Ellen Oh) interviews Kimberly Pauley and Stacy Whitman.
• The World SF Blog interviews Roberto Mendes.
• Fantasy & Science Fiction interviews Richard Bowes.
• SF Squeecast Episode 11 (podcast).
• Readers’ Realm interviews Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Esther Friesner.
• Prime Books (Gina Guadagnino) interviews K.J. Parker.
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show welcomes Myke Cole, Stina Leicht, and Paul Weimer.
• Apex interviews Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt.
• Sci-Fi Talk Podcast interviews Alan Ruck.

News

• LA Times Book Prize Winners Revealed.
• Winners: FAAN Awards.
• World Book Night: Stephen Fry joins million giveaway. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Adam Christopher gets new book deal with Tor.
• Stephenie Meyer and David McKee among most frequently challenged authors, librarians say.
• The New York Review of Science Fiction: April 2012 Table of Contents.
• Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology Kickstarter.

Events

• The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings presents Michael Cisco John Shirley.

Articles

• Juliette Wade on “Hook the reader with your opening,” they say – but precisely whom are you hooking?
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Things to Consider When Plotting World Domination: Play to your Strengths.
• Weird Fiction Review (Hal Duncan) on Hal Duncan’s Favorite Monster.
• Richard Parks on Don’t Let the Ducks Win.
• Jim C. Hines on Posing Like a Man.
• Jackie Collins explains her decision to self-publish. [via The Cultural Gutter]
• Strange Horizons (Ann Wilkes) on Airships – Not just flying billboards.
• David Brin on Space Resources: Re-igniting a can-do spirit of ambition.
• BestSFBooks lists Ernest Cline's Favorite SF Books.
• Mark Charan Newton on The Line Between the Historical and the Fantastic.
• Law and the Multiverse on Time Travel, Resurrection, and Double Jeopardy.
• Smart Pop Books (Loni Peristere) on Mutant Enemy U.
• Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist (Mark Teppo) on The Mongoliad.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on 10 Tips for Writing Good Action Scenes and Journey Through the SFF Classics: A Beginning.
• A Dribble of Ink (Daniel Abraham) on Concerning Historical Authenticity in Fantasy, or Truth Forgives You Nothing.
• Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) on The Power of the Blurb.
• Suvudu (Mac Beauvais) on Just What is Cosplay? – Part 4.
• Locus Online Reviews (Paul Di Filippo) reviews on Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel R. Delany.
• The Barnes & Noble Review (Anna Mundow) reviews Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard.
• Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) on And Blue Skies from Pain by Stina Leicht.
• Bibliophile Stalker on Blogging the Hugos 2012: Best Novella.
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on 33 Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies that Could Rock Your Summer.
• Black Gate on What’s Become of Screwloose? and Other Great Short Fiction by Ron Goulart.

Art

• Concept spaceship environments by Tae won jun.
• Robot scene illustration by Tae won jun.
• @ItsArtMag: “Steel Creed” by arsDraw.
• @ItsArtMag: “Special Guest” by Ksalonen.

More Fun Stuff

• The Nerdist Channel Presents “All Star Celebrity Bowling” #4: Mad Men.
• Excerpt: 172 Hours on the Moon.
• Star Wars in Charts.
• All he Zooms in The Shining.
• The High Definite: Skynet.
• Avengers Ikea style.
• Da na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na Batman Burgers.

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