SF Tidbits for 9/20/12
Interviews and Profiles
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Amanda Carlson.
- Suzanne Johnson interviews Alex Hughes.
- Asian America Writers’ Workshop (Phyllis Fong) interviews Malinda Lo.
- Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy interviews Tad Williams (podcast).
- Bookworm Blues interviews Tad Williams.
- My Bookish Ways interviews Jay Kristoff.
- Flickering Myth (Trevor Hogg) chats with the makers of Total Recall.
- The Well interviews Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross.
- Fantasy Matters (Megan Kurashige) interviews Ben Loory.
- Reddit interviews Maureen McHugh.
- Tor.com (Tim Maughan) interviews Neal Stephenson.
- CBS News interviews Richard Branson.
News
- L.A. Officially Names Intersection After Ray Bradbury Even Though He Didn’t Drive.
- Simon & Schuster to stream book videos on Roku and Blinkx.
- Apple, Publishers Subpoena Amazon in Price-Fixing Class Action.
- SFX 227 On Sale Now!
Events
- The Baltimore Book Festival September 28-30.
- NZ Speculative Fiction Blogging Week is here! [via Helen Lowe]
Crowd Funding
Articles
- Omnivoracious on Library of America Releases American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s.
- Bull Spec (Nick Mamatas) on Bullettime.
- The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on Some Mechanisms Underlying Narrative Tension.
- Brenda Cooper On Female Futurists.
- Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist (Margaret Weis) on The Book I’d Like to Write, But My Agent Would Have Heart Failure.
- Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on Library of America Goes SciFi.
- L.B. Gale on Science Fiction and Emotionally Resonant Storytelling.
- Wired.com (Chris Kohler) on Borderlands 2: The Gateway Drug to Nerdy Addictions.
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Broadening The Toolbox Through Cross Cultural Encounters: On Resnick, Africa & Opportunity.
- Smart Pop Books (Blythe Woolston) on Bent, Shattered, and Mended.
- What Culture! on 24 Movie Villains Who Weren’t Really Bad.
- SciFiNow (Gareth Hughes) on 5 Iain M Banks books you must read now.
- Book View Cafe (Laura Anne Gilman) on Practical Meerkat Returns: Are You On the Prowl?
- Justine Larbalestier on Writing Your First Novel.
- Omnivoracious (Libba Bray) on her 10 Favorite Horror Movies.
- Jim C. Hines on Ebook Territorialism.
- Jeffrey Ford on Being Profound.
- Joan Slonczewski on Questions about Biology in Science Fiction.
- Marie Brennan on Writing Fight Scenes: Smooth Moves.
- My Bookish Ways (Kristin Centorcelli) on Blood Riders by Michael P. Spradlin.
- Staffer's Book Review (Justin Landon) reviews The Tainted City by Courtney Schafer and Chimera by T.C. McCarthy.
- Examiner.com (Josh Vogt) reviews on The Tainted City by Courtney Schafer, The Unincorporated Future by Dani and Eytan Kollin and Blood of the City by Robin D. Laws.
Art
- Sci-Fi concept ships by nicponim.
- Concept robots by nicponim.
- High-Captain of Angband by Per Øyvind Haagensen.
- Vulva Fields Mark II by Emrah ELMASLI.
- Yama and the Red Dragon by Jason Mark.
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