SF Tidbits for 9/25/12
By Charles Tan |
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 at
12:05 am
Interviews and Profiles
- 42 Webs interviews Erin M. Evans.
- SciFiNow (Ivan Drago) interviews Iain M Banks.
- Geek Chocolate (Michael Flett) interviews Hannu Rajaniemi .
- The SFFWRTCHT Interview: Juliet Marillier.
- Diabolical Plots (Carl Slaughter) interviews Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
- The Roundtable Podcast interviews Patrick Rothfuss.
- Alex Bledsoe interviews Signe Pike.
- Broke Artist interviews Sam Bellotto.
- Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Gregory A. Wilson.
- The Telegraph (Roya Nikkhah) profiles J.K. Rowling.
- Writing Excuses episode 7.39 (podcast).
News
- After Goodreads Book Giveaway.
- Mike Resnick’s Weird Westerns to become a video game.
- Paolini’s Inheritance Series gets Enhanced Ebook Treatment.
- SFR Brigade Anthology in the Works.
- Macmillan Poised to Test Library E-book Model.
- First instalment of The Hobbit to get Royal premiere.
- Great North Road – The Limited, Slipcased Edition.
- TTA Press announces TTA Novellas + a Special Offer.
Events
Articles
- Justine Larbalestier On the Differences Between Publishing Houses.
- Chuck Wendig On Cultivating Instinct As An Inkslinging Storyspinning Penmonkey Type.
- Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Turning Inspiration into a Plot.
- Matt Kressel on Notes from the Other Side.
- The Enchanted Inkpot (Leah Cyrpress) on Non-Fairy Tale Retellings.
- Book View Cafe (Patricia Rice) on The Fantasy of Writing Urban Fantasy.
- David B. Coe on More on Fear and Writing, part I: Confessions of an Idle Writer.
- The Book Smugglers (Kenneth Oppel) on Inspirations & Influences.
- Black Gate (Matthew David Surridge) on John Myers Myers, Silverlock, and the Commonwealth of Letters.
- The World SF Blog (Sarah Newton) on Writing for the World SF Blog.
- L.B. Gale on Managing Chapters Part 1: “End of Chapter Moments”.
- The Night Bazaar (Courtney Schafer) on One of These Things Is Just Like The Other.
- Bare Bones e-zine (Jack Seabrook & Peter Enfantino) on Batman in the 1970s Part 37: August and September 1975.
- Clarion (Lynda Williams) on Writer’s Craft #91 – Genre Mashups.
- Graham Edwards on Revisiting Cinefex (25): Enemy Mine, Der Trickfilm, Fright Night.
- Titan Books on Anatomy of a Cover: Ecko Rising.
- Alex Shvartsman (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) on Beyond the Sun.
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt on What Is Abraham Lincoln: Dinosaur Hunter?
Reviews
- The Comics Journal (Carter Scholz) reviews Dal Tokyo.
- Locus Online (Paul Di Filippo) reviews Neal Barrett, Jr.
- My Bookish Ways reviews Velveteen.
Art
- De la Terre à la Lune- Ed. Hachette 2004 by MANCHU.
- Get Burn to Ashes by Sandra Duchiewicz.
- Robots by Galan Pang.
- Cover Reveal: NOS4R2 by Joe Hill.
- Cover Art & Synopsis for The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson.
- Sea Creature by Jaime Jones.
- Android Girl by Keun Ju Kim.
More Cool Stuff
- Trust – chapter 18.
- Crewel (Excerpt).
- Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Final Flight as Seen From Space.
- invade ALL OF THE humans!!!
- Star Wars Infographic Flowcharts.
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From the Banks interview:
“I also felt that there was a moral high ground in space opera, and I wanted to reclaim it for the Left! I was fed up with reading these otherwise enjoyable books that ultimately turned out to be ultra-capitalist, or almost proto-fascist at times. I wasn’t having this.”
Iain you silly boy. Perhaps one day you might want to explain how the citizens of the Culture were ‘gene fixed” and how an AI invented language became the standard of trillions of people.
You literally can’t get more fascist then enforced eugenics and government imposed language.
As to the moral high ground of Space Opera one wonders how the socialists, without violent coercion, will prevent those neanderthal libertarians from just leaving. Space is infinite is it not?
Lastly your villains have become less believable then the ones found in an Ayn Rand novel. For the sake of your fans, reconsider Horza.