SF Tidbits for 5/24/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Gollancz interviews Elspeth Cooper.
- Flickering Myth interviews Dave Mott.
- The Enchanted Inkpot (Leah Cypress) interviews Kate Milford.
- Reality Skimming interviews Leonid Korogodski.
- Speculate! interviews Brent Weeks (podcast).
- Omnivoraciouos (Jeff VanderMeer) interviews China Mieville.
- Tor.com (Brit Mandelo) interviews Paolo Bacigalupi.
- Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) interviews Jennifer Bosworth.
- Geoff Boucher interviews Leonard Nimoy (video, Part 2).
News
- Announcing the 2012 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists.
- BVC’s “All You Can Read” Library Ebook Plan.
- Peter Segal in Talks to Direct Vin Diesel in The Machine, about a humanoid creation of the Pentagon meant to be the world’s ultimate weapon.
- Guy Gavriel Kay discusses his next novel, River of Stars.
- Subterranean Press announces Stranger Things Happen (Limited Edition) by Kelly Link, Upon The Dull Earth by Philip K. Dick and The Boolean Gate by Walter Jon Williams.
- Nonstop Press announces The Very Best Of Barry N. Malzberg, Reflections & Refractions (Revised) by Robert Silverberg and The Collected Stories Of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 2.
- Kickstarter: 12 for '12 (3.0): Dangerous Games Novels by Matt Forbeck.
- Kickstarter: Fireside magazine Issue Two & Beyond by Brian White.
- Kickstarter: Space Command by Marc Zicree.
Events
Articles
- Charlie Stross on SF, big ideas, ideology: what is to be done?
- Book View Cafe (Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff) on Matters of Faith: Real Religions in Fiction.
- Bookworm Blues (Sue Bricknell) on The Ship Who Sang.
- Keith Brooke (Ian Sales) on Whippleshield Books.
- Rachelle Gardner on What Does the Editing Process Look Like?
- Janice Hardy on Break it Down: Trimming Words From a Too-Long Manuscript.
- Revolution Science Fiction on Adoption Advocates Ask For Avengers Apology.
- Tor.com (Shoshana Kessock) on Fantasy For All: The Evolution of LGBT Characters in Comics, Fandoms and YA Lit.
- Shimmer (Cassie Alexander) on Facts are Friends: Writing What You Know.
- Book Life Now (Peter Brandvold ) on Stalking the Wild Sentence.
- Inkpunks (Kristi) on Putting the science in zombie apocalypse.
- Ian Randal Strock on Charlie Jane Anders and Brian Francis Slattery don their writer hats to read and answer questions at special NYRSF Reading.
- L.B. Gale on Literary Trope of the Week: The Unreveal.
- Pat Hauldren on Me & Chi—How to become the heroine of your own exciting writing life!.
- Adam Roberts on Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (1992).
- Ian Sales on The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling.
- Jaym Gates reviews Mind Storm.
- Robert J. Sawyer on Seeing Star Trek: The Motion Picture as it was meant to be seen.
- Tor.com (Chris Lough) on Mad Men Begins Highlighting Science Fiction as a Tool of Expression.
- Village Voice on L. Ron Hubbard…in his Own Words. [via Andrew Porter]
- CNET News on Why Apple needs to settle its e-book suits.
- Neatorama lists 10 Facts You Might Not Know about Star Trek: Voyager.
Art
- Shelly Wan Gallery.
- Eric Joyner Gallery.
- Cthulhu and Thomas Kinkade.
- Star Wars Hybrids.
- Matt Gaser on Conceptships.
- @CoolVibe: “Black Angel” by Mateusz Ozminski.
- @3MMi: “Time To Revive” by Pierre-Alain D. (And many more) [via RAWZ]
More Fun Stuff
- Leonard Nimoy’s 2012 Boston University Fine Arts Convocation Address.
- Sample Chapter: City of the Fallen Sky by Tim Pratt.
- Beware the Hairy Mango #123 – “Regret-Me-Not” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
- Amazing Star Trek Voyager Cake.
- Gigantic Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine Costumes.
- Incredible Hulk + Dr. Seuss = Cutest smash ever.
- R2-D2 Hoodie.
- R.U. A Cyberpunk?
- Infographic: Every Avenger That Marvel Ever Invented.