SF Tidbits for 5/1/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Lisa L. Hannett (and Angela Slatter) interview Kirstyn McDermott.
• Tje Register Guard profiles Kate Wilhelm.
• Publishers Weekly (Lenny Picker) chats with Alastair Reynolds.
• Fantasy Book Critic chat with Bradley P. Beaulieu & Rob Ziegler.
• Underwire (Adam Rogers) interviews Joss Whedon.
• Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Will McIntosh.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) Take Five with Peter David.
• Weird Fiction Review (Larry Nolen) interviews Brian Evenson.
• Prime Books interviews Bradley Denton.
• The Qwillery interviews V.M. Zito (plus giveaway).
• Ray Gun Revival interviews Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt interviews Johne Cook.
• Daniel Abraham interviews James S. A. Corey.

News

• Norma K Hemming Award Shortlist.
• Strange Horizons Welcomes Julia Rios.
• HWA to Host WHC 2013.
• Barnes & Noble Spins Off Nook, With Help From Microsoft. (Reactions from Tobias Buckell and John Scalzi.)
• Sarah Zettel starts new series with a trilogy sale to Hougton Mifflin.
• Kickstarter Project: Send Captain Picard to Space.

Events

• “Special Needs in Strange Worlds” Month at Bookworm Blues.  [via Sci-Fi Fan Letter]

Articles

• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Mood Killers: Four Book-Throwing Offenses (and How to Avoid Them).
• The World SF Blog (Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Gabriel Trujillo-Muñoz) on Mexican Science Fiction: The Northern Corridor.
• Janice Hardy on Don’t Finish: Ways to be a More Productive Writer, Part 3.
• Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on Cross Gender Writing Revisited.
• Malinda Lo on Writing About Kissing.
• Kotaku on The Game of Thrones Minecraft Project Is Getting More And More Spectacular.
• Juliette Wade on What’s in a “strong female character”?
• Clarion (Justine Graykin) on The Perils of the Writer Group.
• io9 (Cyriaque Lamar and Charlie Jane Anders) on Top 10 Albums Every Self-Respecting Science Fiction Fan Should Own.
• Book Life Now (Erik Scott de Bie) on What You Need to Know about Shared Worlds.
• Richard Parks on Time for Some Name-Calling.
• Seanan McGuire on seanan_mcguire: Why a Supporting Membership to WorldCon is a great idea.
• Martha Wells on on Book Recommendations.
• Bookworm Blues (Robert Jackson Bennett) on Special Needs in Strange Worlds.
• Fred Kiesche on eBooks.
• Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) reviews Myke Cole’s Shadow Ops: Control Point.
• Barebones e-zine on Batman in the 1970s Part 16: January and February 1972.
• Smart Pop Books (Robert T. Jeschonek) on Fringe Double-Blinded Me with Science.
• CNET Crave (Jeff Bakalar) on The Walking Dead game is not what you think, and that's a good thing.
• Los Angeles Review of Books (Ted Gioia) on Fix-up Artist: The Chaotic SF Of A.E. Van Vogt. (See also: The Chaotic Sci-Fi of A.E. van Vogt: A Centenary Tribute.)

Art

• Bob Eggleton’s ART du Jour: Martians and a Kaiju.
• 20+ Jedi Knights And Sith Lords Concept Art.
• Concept spaceship environments by Daniel Dociu.
• Concept robot art by William T. Pace.
• Wards of Faerie Interior Artwork Finished.
• Real Super Heroes and Villains – Scott Harben.
• @Minimal Movie Posters: “The Shining” by 3ftDeep.
• @CoolVibe: “Griyn Chronalen” by J. Otto Szatmari.

More Fun Stuff

• Inside Batman’s Cowl.
• This is the Bat-Stache.
• Beware the Hairy Mango #101 – “On the Net” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.

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