Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 11/28/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Random Revelations interviews Laura Lam.
• Jon Gibbs interviews John Grant.
• Tor (Bella Pagan) interviews Cherie Priest.
• Weird Fiction Review (Adam Mills) interviews Berit Ellingsen.
• The Writer and the Critic episode 25 (podcast).
• Last Short Story episode 3.
• The Next Big Thing with Kirstyn McDermott, Tansy Rayner Roberts.
• Locus Roundtable on Spoilers.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Cat Rambo (podcast).
• My Bookish Ways interviews DD Barant.
• The Qwillery interviews Joseph Nassise.

News

• BVC Announces Dragon Virus by Laura Anne Gilman.
• 2012 Utopiales Awards Announced.
• A World of Ice and Fire App Launches Today.

Events

• The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings presents Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman.

Articles

• Juliette Wade on Some thoughts on culture shock and cultural sensitivity.
• Chuck Wendig on How Chuck Wendig Writes A Novel.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Blake Charlton) talks about opening sentences.
• Weird Fiction Review (Nancy Hightower) on Flights of Fantasy in “Exhale,” the Latest Exhibition of Jeremy Geddes.
• BBC News on Understanding space suit technology.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter Publisher Spotlight: HiLoBooks.
• John Wiswell on Bathroom Monologue: 6 Badass Revolutionary War Alternate Histories Nobody Uses.
• The Night Bazaar (Walter Greatshel) on To Be or Not To Be, that is the question.
• Philip Athans on How Not to Open a Short Story.
• Ian Sales on From the Sublime to the ridiculous.
• Gav Reads on A SF Masterworks Challenge?
• Staffer’s Book Review on State of the Blog on Thanksgiving (and Beta Reading).
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on 10 Television Cliffhangers That Make Great Series Finales.

Art

• Spaceships by Dmitry Vishnevsky.

More Cool Stuff

• Release Day Giveaway: Cold City by F. Paul Wilson.
• Cristina De Middel’s Afronauts: An African space fantasy.

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