SF Tidbits for 4/3/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Rocket Kapre (Paolo Chikiamco) interviews Eliza Victoria.
• The Qwillery interviews Anne Lyle.
• Civilian Reader interviews Helen Lowe.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) Take Five with Matthew Hughes.
• Monster Island Resort interviews Joe Hill (video). [via The Cultural Gutter]
• io9 interviews Felicia Day.
• Badass Digest profiles Richard Matheson.
• Examiner.com (Josh Vogt) interviews Elspeth Cooper.

News

• Bud Webster has been announced as the recipient of this year’s Service to SFWA Award.
• Jules Verne And H.G. Wells To Team Up For Adventure in the film The Royal Literary Honor Society.
• Bending the limits of e-book design with flexible displays.
• Flying Car Makes Successful Maiden Flight. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• If 100 copies of Trent Zelazny’s Kindle novella Fractal Despondency are sold ($1.49 through April, with proceeds going to the Santa Fe Recovery Center), he shall record himself singing “Friday” by Rebecca Black and post it online.

Events

• China Miéville signing Railsea at Forbidden Planet.
• John Scalzi Collection Sweepstakes.
• 24th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Readings.
• SF_Book_Club: April’s SF selection is The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.

Articles

• Publisher’s Weekly (Cory Doctorow) on A Whip to Beat Us With.
• Rachelle Gardner on Publishing: The Long and Winding Road.
• Janice Hardy on What’cha Doing? Ways to be a More Productive Writer, Part 1.
• Theodora Goss on Being a Fantasy.
• Salon (Saladin Ahmed) on Is “Game of Thrones” too white?
• Adrienne Kress on About Female Characters (or as I like to call them, Characters).
• Clarion (Michèle Laframboise) on Extending our roots.
• Aqueduct (Timmi Duchamp) on Gender balance in sf reviewing venues– 2011 update.
• Lisa L. Hannett (Kim Falconer) on Taking Five Unrealistic Steps.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Brilliant Beginnings: Engaging Readers on Page One.
• Inkpunks (Morgan Dempsey) on Goal-Setting for Creatively-Minded People.
• Carrie Ryan on Distinguishing between Plot and Premise.
• M. John Harrison on I never liked [The Centauri Device] much.
• Slate (Matthew Yglesias) on J.K. Rowling Just Transformed Book Publishing. [via Locus Online]
• The Barnes & Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) reviews Elizabeth Hand’s Available Dark.
• Guardian (Keith Brooke) reviews T.C. McCarthy’s Exogene. [via Locus Online]
• Washington Post (Michael Dirda) asks Hunger Games vs. John Carter: Are critics wrong? [via Locus Online]
• Paul Gravett on Morgenstadt 2050: Stories from Today & Tomorrow.
• Fantasy Faction on Elves In Mythology and Fantasy.
• Mad Hatter (Bradley P. Beaulieu) on Growing Pains: Lessons in Writing the Sequel.
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show (Myke Cole) on Superhero Ethics.
• A Dribble of Ink (Christopher J. Garcia) on Ma Vie en Zines.
• Grasping for the Wind (Steven John) on Just Start.
• Real Science: MIT News on Self-sculpting sand.

Art

• Fantasy Artwork by Grzegorz Rutkowski.
• Cool “Gigantor” posters by Laurent Durieux.
• The Women of Star Trek.
• @Daily Design Inspiration: “The Shield 4 Cover” by Admira Wijaya.
• @Daily Design Inspiration: “Voltron Cover Year One” by Admira Wijaya.
• @ItsArtMag: “Robo Dealers” by nicponimsky.
• @ItsArtMag: “Space Mining” by malo.
• @ItsArtMag: “Iceracers” by Okmer.
• @ItsArtMag: “Fog Town” by nicponimsky.
• @Reddit: “Dragon Boat” by Neil Maccormack.
• @CoolVibe: “Technification” by Martin de Diego Sádaba.
• @CoolVibe: “Revival of the Death Colossus” by Gaétan Weltzer.
• @CoolVibe: “Black dream” by Anton Semenov.

More Fun Stuff

• Stunning footage from Strugatsky brothers adaptation Hard to be a God.

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