SF Tidbits for 4/6/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Chuck Wendig interviews Delilah Dawson.
- Advice To Writers with Cory Doctorow.
- Only the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy interviews Jon Sprunk.
- I Will Read Books interviews Anne Lyle.
- Sci-Fi Bulletin interviews Anne Lyle.
- Suvudu (Fictional Frontiers) interviews Jason Fry (podcast).
- @Scalzi’s The Big Idea: David J. Silbey.
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt interviews Anna Paradox.
- The Qwillery interviews Thomas Morrissey.
- The Galaxy Express (Heather Massey) interviews Veronica Scott.
News
- Project Announcement: We See A Different Frontier.
- 20 Percent of Americans Say They're Reading eBooks.
- E-books spur reading among Americans, survey shows.
- Some e-book publishers begin settlement talks; Apple holding out.
- Genre Fiction Magazine (Sci Fi, Fantasy, Mystery, Horror) launches.
Events
- Apr 17, 2012: A Long Evening with Neal Stephenson at MIT. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- April 19 – May 2: Seattle’s Cinerama is thrilled to announce their First Annual Science Fiction Film Festival.
Articles
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch on Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Audience.
- Deborah J. Ross on Celebrating George R. R. Martin.
- Inkpunks (Galen Dara) on The taxman and the artist.
- io9 (Meredith Woerner) on The Most Inappropriate Science Fiction Movie Thongs on the Internet.
- The Night Bazaar (Carol Wolf) on Soup, and the Making of a Novel.
- Jay Lake on Conventions: Time, reading and panel etiquette.
- Smart Pop Books (Jean Lorrah) on A World Without Love: The Failure of Family in Angel.
- Black Gate (Matthew David Surridge) on Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, and Elidor.
- File 770 (Mike Glyer) on What the Heinleins Told the 1940 Census.
- Law and the Multiverse on Superheroes and Jury Duty.
- Big Think on Print Your Own Robots.
- Scott Turow on Apple Antitrust Suit Would Aid Amazon.
- Tansy Rayner Roberts lists 5 Books that Changed My Life.
Art
- @Gorilla Artfare: “Dark Genesis” by Ostrander.
- @Minimal Movie Posters: “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Rebecca Kjeer.
- @Minimal Movie Posters: “Batman trilogy” by Christopher Conner.
- @Minimal Movie Posters: “Wall•E” by Sabrina Jackson.
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