SF Tidbits for 5/3/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Civilian Reader interviews Madeline Ashby.
• Tracie Welser interviews Nicola Griffith.
• Curiouser and Curioser interviews Stephen Graham Jones.
• The Qwillery interviews Jenn Bennett.
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy interviews Garth Nix (podcast).
• Prime Books (Jennifer Konieczny) interviews Chris Lawson.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: N.K. Jemisin.
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Deva Fagan) interviews Zoë Marriott.
• The Guilded Earlobe interviews Mainak Dhar.
• SFF World (Rob H. Bedford) interviews Jack Campbell Interview.
• Outer Alliance Podcast interviews Tansy Rayner Roberts.
• Flickering Myth interviews Nick Davis.
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley) interviews Garth Nix.

News

• RIP: Composer Joel Goldsmith. [via Andrew Porter]
• Rogers Wins Clarke Award.
• Stephen King: I'm rich, tax me.
• Black hole caught eating star.
• Thieving Stars Snatch Orphan Planets : Discovery News.
• Writer Beware: Literary Agent Uwe Luserke, SBPRA. [via Andrew Porter]
• TOC: Female of the Species by Richard Davis. [via Andrew Porter]
• SFX 222 On Sale Now.
• It’s Hugo Month at Escape Pod!
• VIZ Media announces Shonen Jump Alpha trivia sweepstakes.
• Tor and Forge Books: Scalzi Collection Sweepstakes.
• Through May and June, all of Mur Lafferty’s ebooks will be available for free!

Articles

• The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on Where lie the borders between Voice and Style?
• Kirstyn McDermott on Girls and Consequences.
• AMC Film Critic (John Scalzi) on 9 Scifi Films You Should See That You (Probably) Haven’t.
• Kat Howard on Overnight success, thousands of nights in the making.
• ACM Blog on Top Ten Reasons We Can’t Get Enough The Matrix.
• Inkpunks (Amy Sundberg) on The Five Stages of Submission.
• Outer Alliance (Brit Mandelo) on Beyond Binary and We Wuz Pushed.
• Omnivoracious (Seira Wilson) interviews Kristin Cashore and Richelle Mead.
• Black Gate (C.S.E. Cooney) on Snarky Female Protagonists and Why I Read Them.
• Clarkesworld Magazine (Elizabeth Bear) on Dear Speculative Fiction, I’m Glad We Had This Talk.
• Wired.com (Kim Newman) on A Brief History of Vampire Fiction. [via Andrew Porter]
• LA Times on The Reading Life: Interviewing William Burroughs.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter reviews Swipe by Evan Angler.
• Alan Cole on Playing The Hero Game.
• Demon Muse (Matt Cardin) on On Getting Out of Your Creative Daemon's Way.
• Ohio Resource Center on Engaging Reluctant Readers in YA Literature.
• Smart Pop Books (Diana Peterfreund) on Team Shay.
• Fantasy Faction (Eric Christensen) on Ten Fantasy Clichés That Should Be Put To Rest.
• Wizards of the Coast D&D (Jon Schindehette) on (Sexism in Fantasy).
• Black Gate (Scott Taylor) on Art of the Genre: The Top 10 Literary Sci-Fi/Fantasy Covers of the 1980s.
• The Observer on The 10 best first lines in fiction.

Art

• Striking Digital Arts By Russia Artist.
• John Conrad Berkey Gallery.
• Cover launch: Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis.
• Spaceship art for ImagineFX by David Demaret.
• @CoolVibe: “Watchtower” by Andreas Rocha.
• @CoolVibe: “Witchblade 149” by Stjepan Sejic.

More Fun Stuff

• Beware the Hairy Mango #102 – “Upstairs, Cownstairs” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• John Scalzi and Pat Rothfuss and Amber Benson and Felicia Day Talk About Characters For Roughly an Hour.
• A rare look at a star's demise in a supermassive black hole.
• Infographic: How to Write a Booker Prize-Winning Novel.
• Paths of Time Travel in Futuristic Films.
• 13 Awesome Paper-Crafts & Origami Designs.
• Free Song: “Emily Greenstreet” by The Science of Fiction, based on Lev Grossman’s The Magicians.
• H.P. Lovecraft Answers Your Relationship Questions. [via Andrew Porter]