SF Tidbits for 5/2/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Weird Fiction Review (Jeff VanderMeer) interviews Kathe Koja.
• The SFFWRTCHT Interview: Alethea Kontis.
• Apex (Maggie Slater) interviews Rachel Swirsky.
• Prime Books (Andrew Liptak) interviews Alexandra Duncan.
• Jim C. Hines interviews Mur Lafferty.
• Lightspeed (Andrew Liptak) interviews Dale Bailey.
• Lightspeed (Erin Stocks) interviews Linda Nagata.
• Janet Reid interviews Laird Barron.
• io9 (George Dvorsky) interviews David Brin.
• This Is Horror (Alan Kelly) interviews Jo Fletcher.
• This Is Horror (Jim McLeod) interviews Paul Finch.
• This Is Horror interviews Vincent Holland-Keen.
• Pyr-a-Zine interviews Erin Hoffman.
• Clarkesworld Magazine (Jeremy L. C. Jones) interviews Michael J. Sullivan.
• Apex Magazine (Maggie Slater) interviews Interview with Rachel Swirsky.
• Speculate (Gregory A. Wilson and Bradley P. Beaulieu) interviews Rob Ziegler (podcast).
• Functional Nerds (Patrick Hester and John Anealio) interview Jonah Knight.

News

• The Norma K. Hemming Award Shortlist Announced.
• Nominations are now open for a Down Under Fan Fund delegate (DUFF) from North America to the 51st Australia national science fiction convention Continuum VIII, Melbourne, 8-11 June 2012. [via Andrew Porter]
• This Is Horror Announces Premium Chapbook Series.
• Announcing: Stranger Studies: The Bob Eggleton Sketchbook.
• T.C. McCarthy’s Somewhere it Snows now available as an eBook single.
• Mobcaster Project: Drifter, a SciFi television pilot starring Julie Ann Emery, Darren le Gallo and Emma Caulfield.
• Now posted: Ansible #298, May 2012.

Events

• John Scalzi’s Redshirts Tour.

Articles

• Conceptual Fiction (Ted Goia) on A.E. van Vogt.
• Stroppy Author on A view from the bridge (2): Rejections.
• Chuck Wendig on 25 Realizations Writers Need To Have.
• Graham Edwards on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Star Trek III.
• Small Beer Press on Why print on demand isn’t right for us right now.
• Book Life Now (Steve Scearce) on The Writer’s Toolkit: Almost Everything You Need to get the Story Started.
• Locus Roundtable on ::ahem:: Non-Western SF.
• A. M. Dellamonica on Bending Genre, Bending Gender.
• Walter Mosley on The Case for Genre.
• Ann and Jeff VanderMeer on on The Weird: It’s Weird… And You’ll Like It!.
• Lavie Tidhar on Some Notes Towards a Working Definition of Steampunk.
• Brian Ruckley on Conan Doyle’s The Lost World.
• David Wellington on What I Write About When I Write About Vampires.
• David Moody on Joe and Me.
• The SF Site (Derek Johnson) asks Do We Need Another Hero?.
• Apex Magazine (Tim Akers) on Faith in the Fantastic.
• Heroes and Heartbreakers (Brittany Melson) on The Mysterious Disappearance of Religion in YA Fiction. [via bookshelves of doom]
• Finding Wonderland (Tanita Davis) on Um, Hello, God? Is This Thing On? [via bookshelves of doom]
• Conor P. Dempsey on Book Adaptations To Look For In 2012 And Beyond, Part 3.
• io9 (George Dvorsky) on Why Star Trek's Vision of the Future is Out of Date.
• Tor.com (Shoshana Kessock) on 5 Graphic Novels That Should Have Made the Hugo Awards.
• SFX on The 10 Best TV Pilots.
• Ranker lists The 18 Greatest Dark Knight Rises Trailer Parodies.

Art

• Gallery of 9 pulpy sci-fi travel posters to inspire galactic dreams.
• Designers Assemble for the Avengers.
• @ItsArtMag: “The Boy And His Dragon” by Andy Fairhurst.
• @ItsArtMag: “Necromancer” by Saryth.

More Fun Stuff

• A Glossary Of Railsea By China Miéville.
• Wallpapers for 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson.

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