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]

Art

• Concept spaceship art by Kang Donghwa.
• The 50 greatest matte paintings of all time.

More Fun Stuff

• Beware the Hairy Mango #131 – “The Pasta Bowl” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• The First 3 Chapters from Daniel H. Wilson’s Amped.