Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 11/7/12

Interviews and Profiles

• BoingBoing Marjorie M. Liu and Stephanie Chong interview each other.
• Fantasy Cafe interviews Courtney Schafer.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Colin F. Barnes (podcast).
• Believer (Emma Brockes) interviews Maurice Sendak.
• ComicBookMovie.com interviews George R.R. Martin (video).
• The Roundtable Podcast interviews Lou Anders (podcast).
• Suvudu (Fictional Frontiers) interviews James Berardinelli (podcast).
• Apex Magazine (Maggie Slater) interviews Alex Bledsoe.
• I Should Be Writing interviews Pip Ballantine (podcast).

News

• David Grove, 1940-2012.
• Now posted: PKD Otaku #26.
• Auction for Hurricane Sandy relief — Without a Summer manuscript.

Articles

• SFWA (Aliette de Bodard) on Common Myths About Science.
• Strange Chemistry on Top Ten Tropes in YA – featuring A E Rought.
• Strange Horizons (Mark Plummer) on Paraphernalia: The Time Traveller.
• Paul McAuley on Just Like Science Fiction.
• James Van Pelt on Connie Willis on Dialogue.
• Weird Fiction Review (John Clute) on The Darkening Garden: Vastation.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Ryk E. Spoor.
• Apex Magazine (Steven H Silver) on Behind the Convention Curtain: Programming.
• Flavorwire (Emily Temple) on 10 Great Authors We Should All Stop Pigeonholing.
• Book View Cafe (Deborah J. Ross) on The “S” Word.
• Juliette Wade on “Eagerness to please,” and the weakness of database marketing for directing the future of SF/F.
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Lee Moyer) talks about Literary Pinups 2013.

Reviews

• Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Forgotten Film: The Gorgon (1964).
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter reviews Ella Enchanted.

 Art

• Cover Art Launch: Gary Gibson’s Shoal Trilogy Reissued.
• Huston, we have a problem.
• Illustrations by Michal Ivan.
• Hounds by Jiwon Pang.
• Spacequest: Art by Gray Morrow, 1976.
• Spaceship concept art by Francis Tsai.

More Cool Stuff

• StarShipSofa No 263 Pamela Sargent.
• Fold a Paper R2-D2 and Other Awesome Star Wars Origami.
• 1972: Anthony Burgess Rides the New York Subway.
• New Baby Room Idea: The ABCs of Spaceships.
• First Look at ‘World War Z’ Footage [Updated With Teaser Poster].
• The first Neuromancer poster is just pure cyberpunk awesome.
• This Dr. Horrible T-shirt is worth cheering for.
• Ellen Datlow’s WFC 2012 Photos.

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