SF Tidbits for 6/30/12

Interviews & Profiles

• Suvudu interviews Daniel H. Wilson.
• Prime Books (Gina Guadagnino) interviews Eugenia Lily Yu.
• Readers interview Jay Lake.
• Magical Worlds interviews Gail Martin.
• The Qwillery interviews Jess Haines.
• The Tomorrow Project (David Johnson) interviews James Carrott.

News

• Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes Included Among “Books that Shaped America” Exhibit.
• Clockwork Orange songs make debut. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Arc Infinity Call for Submissions.
• Woman arrested for overdue Twlight library book. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• First private deep space mission will search for Earth-destroying asteroids.

Events

• July 12-15, 2012: Readercon in Burlington, Massachusetts.
• Mondays between July 9 – August 13 at Brooklyn Bridge Park: Books Beneath the Bridge.

Articles

• Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Jessica Strider) on Special Needs In Strange Worlds Reading List.
• io9 (John Picacio) on My Art Nouveau Vision of George R.R. Martin’s Fiery Sorceress, Melisandre.
• Allan Cole on A July 4 Remembrance Of Chris Bunch
• Suvudu on 15 Minutes of Fiction…with Fictional Frontiers, featuring China Mieville.
• Brian Ruckley on News! And My Next Book…
• Smart Pop Books on Ask Orson Scott Card a question about Ender’s Game.
• The Night Bazaar (Jeff Salyards) on Falling Off the Balance Beam. Onto My Head.
• Wired.com on The Higgs Boson: Whose Discovery Is It?
• Wordplay (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) on The Most Important Rule for Writing – Be True to Yourself.
• Larry Ketchersid on Information Apocalypse – Thinking Man’s Guide to the End of the World.
• Blastr lists See 7 classic Marvel covers before the editors made them perfect.
• Fandomania lists 5 Sci-Fi Franchises with Ridiculous Premises.
• Guardian (Graham Joyce) lists Top 10 fairy fictions. [via Andrew Porter]

Art

• Illustrations by Therese Larsson.
• Beautiful CG Creations by Alberto Trujillo.
• @Artist’s website: “Kiki’s Delivery Service, a poster” by Jack Bloom.
• @CoolVibe: “Primordium” by Nicolas Bouvier.
• @CoolVibe: “Stampede” by Kekai Kotaki.
• @CoolVibe: “Water Colossus” by Alexander Kintner.
• @DailyDesignInspiration: “Flooded Chinatown” by John Liberto.
• @DailyDesignInspiration: “The Shield 1 cover” by Jeremy Roberts.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt: The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross.
• 50 Page Fridays-Comic Con Series: Rob Reid.
• Excerpt: Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff.
• Ringworld Zombie Game.

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