SF Tidbits for 4/27/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Embrace You Mag interviews Alma Katsu.
• [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Authors Sharon Lee & Steve Miller.
• Galactic Suburbia Episode 58 (podcast).
• Nicola Griffith interviews Brit Mandelo.
• Prime Books (Andrew Liptak) interviews Alan DeNiro.
• Blogging the Muse interviews Joe R. Lansdale.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Chuck Wendig.
• Suvudu (Fictional Frontiers) interviews Naomi Novik (podcast).
• The Comics Journal interviews Chris Roberson.
• The Outer Alliance interviews Tansy Rayner Roberts (podcast).
• The Big Idea: Chuck Wendig.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt interviews C.J. Henderson.
• The World SF Blog interviews Roberto Mendes.
• I Am Rogue interviews Stan Lee. [via Forces of Geek]
• Slate Magazine profiles Edgar Allen Poe. [via Paul Di Filippo]

News

• Obituary: Ernest Callenbach.
• Announcing: Futuredaze – A Collection of YA Science Fiction.
• Subterranean Press Joe Hill — Announcing Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows
• Andrew Liptak to write Historical Science Fiction column at Kirkus Reviews Blog.
• Now available: Vollüspa, an anthology of Portuguese Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror.
• Fox orders final season of Fringe.

Articles

• The Book Smugglers (Alethea Kontis) on Inspirations & Influences.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: One Phone Call From Our Knees.
• The Mad Hatter’s (Martha Wells) on Non-European Fantasy by Women.
• Gollancz (Robert J. Sawyer) on Triggers, FlashForward, and Me.
• Ranker on Top 10 Weirdest Things Sent Into Space.
• Frederik Pohl on A.E. van Vogt: ‘Throw a Corpse Through the Skylight’.
• The Night Bazaar (Carol Wolf) on How Can We Not Write Fantasy?
• Jamie Todd Rubin on My kind of science fiction.
• Matt Cheney on Worldbuilding.
• Locus Online (Paul Di Filippo) reviews Thunder in the Void by Henry Kuttner.
• Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Forgotten Book: RGK: The Art of Roy Krenkel, 2005.
• BoomTron on Why Sci-Fi Struggles on TV.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter on Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror.
• Michael Stackpole asks on Is the removal of DRM really significant?
• Patrick Hester on eBooks.
• Newsarama on 10 Comic Book Characters That Didn't Debut in Comic Books.
• SFX on The 10 Most Controversial Series Finales.

Art

• Cover Reveal – Seven Wonders by Adam Christopher.
• John Carter – Character Design and Concept Art.
• Romantically Apocalyptic by Vitaly S Alexius.
• @CGHUB: “Mongolian infantryman by slide” by Helen Rusovich.
• @CGHUB: “Izabull” by JP Targete.
• @CGHUB: “The Crow” by crowgod.
• @Gorilla Artfare: “New Magic Cards” by Nonie.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt: Prologue of A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan,Brandon Sanderson.
• A Flight Through the Universe.
• Dalek Dress.