SF Tidbits for 6/5/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Small Beer Press Podcast interviews Jennifer Stevenson.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Leigh Bardugo.
• Prime Books (Stacey Friedberg) interviews Lusa Tuttle.
• SciFi Diner Podcast interviews Keith R.A. DeCandido.
• BoingBoing (Tom Chatfield) interviews China Miéville.
• Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) interviews Brent Weeks.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts interviews Kylie Chan.
• Kathryn Linge interviews Martin Livings, Marty Young.
• David McDonald interviews Dave Freer, George Ivanoff, Helen Stubbs, Kim Westwood.
• Helen Merrick interviews Kim Falconer, Marianne de Pierres.
• Ian Mond interviews Trudi Canavan, Will Elliott.
• Jason Nahrung interviews Jenny Blackford, Andrew McGahan, Garth Nix, Patrick O’Duffy, Adam Browne.
• Alex Pierce interviews AA Bell.
• Tehani Wessely interviews Sue Bursztynski, Edwina Harvey, Keith Stevenson.
• Sean the Bookonaut interviews Deborah Kalin, Russell B Farr.
• Alisa Krasnostein interviews Rosaleen Love, Karen Miller.
• Brilliant Disguise interviews Marshall Payne.
• Celebration interviews Bob Shaw (video from 1981). [via Andrew Porter]

News

• SFWA’s Author Signing Schedule at BEA.
• Elizabeth Bear book sale.
• Tor/Forge Books Announces DRM-Free E-book Store.
• Clarion West Write-a-thon.
• Australian Shadows Awards 2011.
• Scribe Awards Nominees and Grandmaster.
• Mike Resnick delivers new collection of collaborations: With a Little More Help From My Friends.

Articles

• Tor/Forge (Rhiannon Held) on Werewolf Anthropology.
• Tor/Forge (Warren Hammond) on Why is Your Noir So, Um, Dark?
• Tor/Forge (Paul Melko) on Exploiting the Multiverse for Fun and Profit.
• Tor/Forge (J.A. Pitts) on It’s a Character Thing.
• Tor.com (Jo Walton) on Growing Up: Sean Stewart’s Nobody’s Son.
• A.M. Dellamonica on Revise or Plow On?
• Graham Edwards on Revisiting Cinefex (20): 2010.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Editorial Pet Peeves – All Of A Sudden/Suddenly.
• Juliettet Wade on Critique vs. artistic vision: how far should we respond to reader reactions?
• Janice Hardy on Read On: Do Your Read Like a Reader or a Writer?
• The Intern on five signs you’re about to land an agent: observations from a freelance editor.
• Inkpunks (Morgan Dempsey) on Writing Synopses and Getting Over Yourself.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on What Authors Can Learn from Artists: Teaching Yourself to See.
• Amal El-Mohtar on Scalzi, SWM, and the Necessity of Metaphor.
• Kate Elliott on It’s Amazing the Things We Know, That Are Actually Wrong.
• John H. Stevens on The Darling Books of May.
• The Barnes & Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) reviews The Weird edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.
• Examiner.com (Josh Vogt) reviews Lightbringer by K.D. McEntire.
• Examiner.com (Josh Vogt) reviews The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi.
• Examiner.com (Josh Vogt) reviews Lightbringer by K.D. McEntire.
• Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) reviews Scourge of the Betrayer by Jeff Salyards.
• Bookworm Blues reviews Space Battles edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
• SFR Brigade on Cross-Genre Novels & Summer Reads.
• Barebones e-zine on Batman in the 1970s Part 21: November and December 1972.
• Scott Hanselman on The Nerd Parent’s Guide: When and how to introduce your kids to Star Wars.
• AbeBooks on An Ace on the Shelf – Pioneering Science Fiction from Ace Books. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Cracked.com lists The 5 Most Ingenious Worlds Ever Invented by Science Fiction. [via Bill Crider’s Pop Culture Magazine]
• Wired.com on Top 10 Dads in Science Fiction and Fantasy. [via Paul Di Filippo]

Art

• The Art of Stanley Von Medvey.
• Surreal Digital Art by David Fuhrer.
• Ship concepts by Alexey Yakolev.
• Wallpapers for Caliban’s War by James S.A. Corey.
• @CoolVibe: “Underworlders” by Armandeo.
• @CoolVibe: “Alien World” by Johnson Ting.
• @CoolVibe: “Boba Fett” by Kai Lim.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt: Dead Reckoning by Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill.
• Munchkin: Felicia Day, Steve Jackson and Sandeep Parikh join Wil Wheaton on TableTop, Episode 5.
• Doctor Who Dalek Factory Mini Figure Set.
• Infographic: Who is the Fairest of Them All?
• Epic infographic shows how much $$$ Star Wars has made in 30 years.