Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 11/17/12

Interviews & Profiles

• Sword and Laser interviews Jim Butcher (video).
• My Bookish Ways interviews Leigh Evans.
• The SF Site (Rick Klaw) interviews Walter Simonson.
• Agony Column Podcast interviews Junot Díaz.
• The Roundtable Podcast interviews Jerry Gordon.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter spotlights Christopher Buehlman.
• The Morning After interviews Grimm‘s David Giuntoli and Russell Hornsby (video).

News

• Hachette Launches ePUB Program.
• Now available: The Collected Kessel by John Kessel – Baen’s DRM-free eBooks.
• Call for Submissions: Black Apples anthology of gothic fairytales.
• 11 days to go on the Kickstarter for The 2013 John Picacio Calendar – have you seen the new stretch goals?

Articles

• GalleyCat on Remember Veterans & Share Books with Our Troops. [via My Bookish Ways]
• The Qwillery (Trey Garrison) on Zombies, Nazis, robots and cowboys.
• The SF Site (Derek Johnson) on Watching the Future: Boys With Toys.
• Paul Levinson on The Fictionwise Closing.
• Grady Hendrix on The Great Stephen King Re-read: Night Shift.
• Paul Di Filippo reviews Crandolin by Anna Tambour.
• Making Light on Obvious nonsense about SF sales history.
• Slate on Where’s my hoverboard? Sorry, you’re probably never getting one.
• Topless Robot on The 10 Most Evil Monkeys In Geekdom.
• WhatCulture on 10 Upcoming Comic Book Movies That Are Already Doomed To Fail.
• TIME.com on All-TIME 100 Video Games.

Art

• Digital Art by Steve Argyle.
• Concept Art by Ryan Gitter.
• Inter-dimensional Predator by by Greg Petchkovsky.
• Digital Painting: Troll Girl.
• Olly Moss’s alternative film posters.
• Art by Peter Elson.

More Fun Stuff

• 50 Page Fridays: Drew Karpyshyn.
• Friday Feature: Fires of Nuala.
• Chapter 33 of Trust by David Moody.
• Infographic: The Best-Selling Sci-Fi Books of All Time.
• VOTE! Your Favourite Sci-Fi Spaceships. [via The Website at the End of the Universe]
• Report: Defense Department Spent $100,000 on Klingons.
• Dr. Who VFX by The Mill.
• The Lord of the Ponies.
• The ABC’s of A Song of Ice and Fire.
• Awesome One-of-a-kind Fleischer Superman statue.

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