Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 10/23/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Kij Johnson.
• If You’re Just Joining Us interviews Paul Tremblay (podcast).
• The Writer and the Critic episode 24 (podcast).
• My Bookish Ways interviews Lisa Morton.
• When Gravity Falls (Devi-James Balcombe-Danzig) interviews Sarah Lotz.
• Writing Excuses episode 7.43 with James L. Sutter (podcast).
• Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) interviews Terry Brooks (video).

News

• RIP: Silver Surfer actor Bernard Behrens. [via Andrew Porter]
• The Super Big Fungi Pre-Sale.
• Decolonization Issue #2: Call for Submissions.
• Annual Bard Fiction Prize Is Awarded To Brian Conn.
• WSFA Small Press Award – 2012 Winner.
• P.D. James wins at Women of the Year Awards.
• Locus Online to Host All-Time Best Polls in November.
• Marshall Leaves ChiZine.
• New Anthology: Oz Reimagined.
• British Comic Awards – Judges Announced.
• Rare Star Explosion Reveals Hidden Black Hole in Our Galaxy.

Articles

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Why Writers Disappear. [via Andrew Porter]
• Juliette Wade on Caught between too much pointless detail and not enough? Choose your “logic of caring.”.
• Kat Howard on The birds and the bees and the pens and the pages.
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Amaris Glass) on What’s Your Inner Mythology?
• Susan J. Morris on Frightening Writing: Tips for Scaring off Pants.
• Haikasoru (Nick Mamatas) on Cthulhu Is Japanese.
• Orbit (David Brin) on Are we alone in the universe? Alien Life, Alpha Centauri & The Fermi Paradox.
• Tor.com (Neil Gaiman) on Ghosts in the Machines.
• Book View Cafe (Patricia Rice) on Market Manipulation.
• Smart Pop Books (Lawrence Watt-Evans) on Matchmaking on the Hellmouth.
• Black Gate (Howard Andrew Jones) on The Business of Writing: Joining the Community.
• The Qwillery (Ian Rogers) on A Picture Is Worth More Than A Thousand Words.
• io9 (Jess Nevins) on Mirai-ki: The Forgotten History of Japan’s Early Science Fiction.
• The Underground Bunker on Scientology’s Sea Org Application: What Are Your Crimes?
• Topless Robot (Jason F.C. Clarke) on The 10 Greatest Giant Movie Monsters of All Time.
• WhatCulture! (Drew Dietsch) on 10 Obscure Superheroes That Badly Need A Movie Treatment.
• Blastr (Krystal Clark) on 12 most annoyingly useless horror movie authority figures.

Reviews

• Innsmouth Free Press (Harry Markov) on The Horror that is Horror, Tales to Terrify.
• My Bookish Ways reviews Trucker Ghost Stories.
• The Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) reviews Among Thieves.

Art

• Surreal Digital Art – Max Mitenkov.
• Hot Digital Art by Reza ilyasa.
• The Rule of Law by Arseniy Korablev.
• Flying Machine- Landing Baseby ~thiennh2.

More Cool Stuff

• Blood Song (Excerpt).
• Star Trek The Original Series Summed Up in One Poster.
• 8-bit Version of the Star Trek TOS Theme.

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