SF Tidbits for 7/7/12

Interviews & Profiles

• Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Jessica Strider) interviews Rhiannon Held.
• Sword and Laser interviews Rob Reid (video).
• TWiT.TV interviews Ernest Cline (video).
• Shirley Jackson Awards Lottery (Charles Tan) interviews Ellen Datlow.
• NYTimes (John Schwartz) interviews John Scalzi.
• Fantasy Book Critic interviews K.J. Parker.
• Gotham Writers’ Workshop interviews Saladin Ahmed, Stephen Barnes, Jeffrey Ford, J.M. McDermott, Delia Sherman and Jeff VanderMeer. [Thanks, Jenn Brissett!]

News

• 'Most realistic' robot legs developed. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Minister Faust releases new novel: WAR & MIR, Volume I: Ascension.
• Tor announces The Human Division by John Scalzi, a new Old Man’s War book released as experiemental episodic novel online. (Scalzi’s take.)
• Million Writers Award anthologies now available.

Articles

• Tor.com (Brit Mandelo) on Reading Joanna Russ: The Country You Have Never Seen.
• The Blog That Time Forgot on A Word on Female Fans, Femininity and Fandom.
• L.B. Gale on The Art of Illuminating Quiet Stories.
• Timesfreepress (Casey Phillips) on Steampunk drives new science fiction genre.
• BBC (Tom Chatfield) on Google Glass and the rise in outsourcing our memories.
• Tor.com (Tim Callahan) lists Five Reasons Why Monkeybrain Comics is a Big Deal.
• Gail Carriger on In Which Gail Distills 10 Comic Con Commandments.
• The Night Bazaar (Jeff Salyards) on Taking a Stand? Overrated.
• Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine on Forgotten Books: Jack of Shadows — Roger Zelazny.
• Black Gate (Joe Bonadonna) on How I Met Your Cimmerian (and other Barbarian Swordsmen).
• Black Gate (Howard Andrew Jones) on Better Fantasy Gaming Through Traveller.
• NYTimes Book Review Podcast on Superman and Supremely Boring Books (podcast).
• Topless Robot lists The 10 Most Awesome Moments from Season 2 of Game of Thrones.
• Kirkus Reviews (Ana Grilo and Thea James) lists The Best Sci Fi and Fantasy Books of 2012 (so far…).

Art

• Sci-Fi and Fantasy Illustrations by Yigit Koroglu.
• Concept Art by Abraão Lucas.
• Breathtaking Landscape & Scenery Inspiration #5.
• Concept robots by Jonathan González.
• Spaceship concept by Jonathan González.
• Minimalist Hayao Miyazaki posters.
• The Privilege Of The Sword by Ellen Kushner Audiobook Image.
• Art for Seaborn by Chris Howard.
• Updated Seven Wonders cover.
• 11 Brain-Hungry Zombie Superheroes.
• @deviantART: “Zombies everywhere” by el-grimlock. [via Illustrations Inspiration]
• @DilyDesignInspiration: “Baghresh” by Derek Herring.
• @CoolVibe: “Legend” by Jakub Mathia.
• @CoolVibe: “Exploration-Exploitation” by Pedro Fernandes.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt: Fate of Worlds: Return From the Ringworld by Larry Niven,Edward M. Lerner.
• Excerpt: Jaydium by Deborah J. Ross.
• The Death Star + 13 more sci-fi watermelon carvings.
• The Cars of Total Recall.

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