SF Tidbits for 5/10/12

Interviews and Profiles

• The Enchanted Inkpot (Leah Cypess) interviews Alethea Kontis.
• Lightspeed (Robyn Lupo) interviews Nicola Griffith.
• Lightspeed (Erin Stocks) interviews Catherynne M. Valente.
• Civilian Reader interviews Stina Leicht.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt profiles Jaleta Clegg.
• Far Beyond Reality interviews Lev Grossman.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Mark Teppo.
• Weird Fiction Review (Gio Clairval) profiles Georg Heym.
• Jim C. Hines interviews Stina Leicht.
• The Qwillery interviews Abigail Barnette / Jennifer Armintrout.
• Prime Books interviews Priya Sharma.
• The Future And You interviews Les Johnson (podcast).
• Edge Magazine interviews Iain M. Banks.

News

• StarShipSofa Online Narrators Workshop.
• Hodder & Stoughton looking for Assistant Editor.
• Gollancz Acquires The Hunger Games Parody.
• Signed and numbered copies of Million Writers Award anthologies, along with free chapbook and new Plague Birds story!.
• The cover for The Immersion Book of SteamPunk has been accepted for inclusion in this year’s Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art Book no.19.
• AMC Renews Comic Book Men and Talking Dead.
• Doctor Who Series 7 To Premiere At Edinburgh TV Festival In August.
• Fast-traveling sand dunes indicate the Red Planet’s surface is more active than previously thought.
• Light From a ‘SuperEarth’ Detected for the First Time.

Events

• China Miéville’s Railsea UK Book Tour Info.

Articles

• The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on eBooks and the Death and Ongoing Life of Genre.
• Rachelle Gardner on 9 Ways to Outwit Writer’s Block.
• Storytellers Unplugged (Brian Hodge) on 5 Undying Myths About Published Writers And Their Eerie Powers.
• Juliette Wade on High Culture versus Low Culture (Daily Practices): A worldbuilding hangout report.
• Chuck Wendig on Thinking About Stories.
• Inkpunks (Evan Jensen) on Workspace.
• Book Life Now (Larry D. Sweazy) on Buying Books That Are Finished.
• Justine Larbalestier on You don’t have to read my books.
• The Guardian (Damien G. Walter) on Fandom matters: writers must respect their followers or pay with their careers.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) on What’s Weird, Jeff VanderMeer?
• Guardian (Damien G. Walter) on Fandom matters: writers must respect their followers or pay with their careers. [via Andrew Porter]
• RevolutionSF on HP Lovecraft and Racism.
• Brian Ruckley on Me and My New Word.
• Allan Cole on Return To Alva Sector.
• Mike Brotherton on A Modest Proposal: An Internet Reality “Show” for Science Fiction Writers.
• A. Lee Martinez on Apples and Lampshades.
• The Wertzone on Peter F. Hamilton update.
• Fantasy Faction on Literary Devices: Motif.
• Students For Liberty on Some Suggestions for Your Libertarian Summer Reading List.
• Buzzy Mag lists Sci-Fi Moms, List of Top 10 Science Fiction Mothers.
• Writing is Hard Work (Roger Colby) on Tolkien’s 10 Tips for Creating Epic Heroes.

Art

• Amazing Futuristic Digital Art.
• @CoolVibe: “Hell Brawl” by Marc Sasso.
• @CoolVibe: “The Joker ” by Daniele Angelozzi.
• @CoolVibe: “Inherited Hell” by Vitaly Alexius.
• @ItsArtMag: “Where is the Yum Yum” by Ken Barthelmey.

More Fun Stuff

• Film Crit Hulk Reviews Mark Ruffalo's Performance as Hulk. [via Derek Johnson]
• Read a sample from Blue-Blooded Vamp by Jaye Wells.
• A gallery of every Batman movie and TV poster ever.
• Sci-Fi Songs Free Download: “Let Your Geek Flag Fly: by John Anealio.
• Beware the Hairy Mango #109 – “Stevery Deprivation” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• Beware the Hairy Mango #110 – “The Icee Planet” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• Frakkin’ Berry Cereal.
• Steampunk Hulk Action Figure.

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