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
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.
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