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]