SF Tidbits for 6/1/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Jennifer Brozek, Mark Teppo and Mary Robinette Kowal (podcast).
- The Bat Segundo Show interviews Samuel R. Delany (podcast).
- Far Beyond Reality interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Sword and Laser interviews Ernest Cline (video).
- Prime Books (Molly Tanzer) interviews Joe R. Lansdale.
- SFFWRTCHT Interview – Author Kathy Tyers.
- [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author-Game Designer-Comic Writer Matt Forbeck.
- BBC interviews China Mieville (video).
- Gotham Writers’ Workshop interviews J.M. McDermott.
- Locus Roundtable with Emily Jiang and Rose Lemberg (podcast).
- NYTimes profiles Leo Dillon. [via Andrew Porter]
- The New Yorker (Deborah Treisman) interviews Jennifer Egan (podcast).
News
- NIGHTMARE Needs Slush Readers!
- Announcing the 2012 Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot.
- Fox pushes Spielberg’s Robopocalypse to 2014.
Articles
- Pornokitsch (Adam Roberts) on Getting Younglings Reading.
- Cherie Priest on How to Tell a True Ghost Story.
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Robert L. Collins) on Historical Research & Science Fiction.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Not A Real Survey.
- Janice Hardy on It’s Not Just About the Numbers: How Many Books Can You Write in a Year?
- io9 (Mike Labossiere) on Do we really need more optimistic science fiction?
- Tor.com (Ryan Britt) on Genre in the Mainstream: The New Yorker’s Science Fiction Issue.
- Nick Mamatas on When is a science fiction writer not a science fiction writer?
- Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) Forgotten Book: The Snarkout Boys And The Avocado Of Death by Daniel M. Pinkwater.
- TIME.com on Star Wars Turns 35: How TIME Covered the Film Phenomenon. [via TheForce.Net]
- Suvudu (Shawn Speakamn) on Cover & Video: Legion by Brandon Sanderson.
- Centauri Dreams asks on Is Our Civilization Detectable?
- WhatCulture on H.R. Giger’s Alien: A Brief History Of The Man And the Monster.
- The New Yorker (William Gibson) on Seeing the Future in Science Fiction.
- The New Yorker (Laura Miller) on The Cosmic Menagerie: What did the first fictional aliens look like?.
- The New Yorker (Colson Whitehead) on Learning from Science-Fiction B-movies.
- Flavorwire lists 10 Great Science Fiction Books for People Who Don’t Read Sci-Fi. [via Gravity Lens]
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