SF Tidbits for 5/19/12

Interviews & Profiles

• Kontakt interviews Tim Powers (video).

News

• Victoria Strauss Wins for Writer Beware in First Annual Independent Book Blogger Award.
• Sci-Fi Version of Fifty Shades of Grey Picked Up by Fox.
• Now available as an eBook: Shadow Unit: Anomalous Crimes by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, Will Shetterly, Amanda Downum.
• Internova update and call for volunteers.
• Win a Trip for Two to The Walking Dead Premiere and a Personalized Zombie Bust.
• Game Of Thrones Season Three Casting Call. [via George R.R. Martin]

Events

• SF in SF this Saturday: Ysabeau Wilce, Marie Brennan & Erin Hoffman. [via Boing^2]
• StarShipSofa Online Narrators Workshop June 10th, 2012.

Articles

• John Picacio on How I Brought Game of Thrones‘ Ned Stark to Life.
• @Scalzi’s Whatever: The Big Idea: Michelle Sagara.
• Ian Sales on SF Mistressworks: Jerusalem Fire by R.M. Meluch.
• Smart Pop Books (Lawrence Watt-evans) on Peter Parker’s Penance.
• Graham Storrs asks Why is Science Fiction Dying?
• Graham Edwards on Revisiting Cinefex (19): Gremlins, Buckaroo Banzai, Dreamscape.
• Joe Konrath on Exploited Writers in an Unfair Industry. [via 40kBooks]
• Jamie Todd Rubin on Nebula Weekend 2012, Day 1 (Thursday): Or, the guy who spilled the sugar.
• Bookworm Blues (Ryan Frye) on Special Needs in Strange Worlds: Favorite Differently Abled Characters.
• Brian Ruckley on MPoaF: Light.
• Slate Magazine asks Will paper books exist in the future? [via Matt Cardin at The Teeming Brain]
• BBC News asks What caused the mystery of the Dark Day? [via Paul Di Filippo]
• The Barnes & Noble Review (Michael Dirda) on Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights.
• Manga Worth Reading asks Can You Make a Living in Manga If You’re Not Japanese?
• LitReactor (Kimberly Turner) on There's So Much Damned Profanity In YA Books.
• YA Highway (Veronica Roth) lists 8 Things You Might Not Know About the New York Times Bestseller List.
• Flavorwire lists 10 of the Weirdest Children’s Book Authors of All Time.
• Popular Mechanics lists 10 Sci-Fi Faster-Than-Light Systems.
• What Culture on 5 Weird Places Marvel Movies Won’t Dare Go.
• Badass Digest lists Take Back The Nerd: Five Ways To Be A Good Fan.

Art

• Concept ships with environments by François Baranger.
• Illustrations by Elda The.
• Illustrator – Character Designer – Francisco Perez aka Pac23.
• Fantasy Ink: Tales of the Zombie.
• Russian Behemoth Cover.
• @CoolVibe: “Concept Art: Collabo with the franchise” by Dave Wilkins.
• @CoolVibe: “Gloomwidow” by Svetlin Velinov.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo.
• 50 Page Fridays: Anne and Todd McCaffrey.
• Beware the Hairy Mango #118 – “The Terrier Brush Man” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• Ellen Datlow’s photos from the May 16, 2012 KGB Reading with Victor LaValle and Karen Heuler.
• Anne Francis on the set of The Twilight Zone.
• Cool Trek Stuff: New Star Trek ‘Shuttle Crew Service’ Recruitment Poster.
• Alien Pez Dispenser.