Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 12/1/12

Interviews & Profiles

• 5 Questions to a Great Story with Clay and Susan Griffith.
• Geek Planet interviews Rosa Montero.
• Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss, and Tom Doherty Talk A Memory of Light.
• I Wish I Was A Book interviews Adam Christopher.
• The Roundtable Podcast interviews Bryan Thomas Schmidt.

News

• BBC To Adapt Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
• Stephen King Returns To Network Television With Under The Dome.
• Massive collection of 1,950 Star Wars figures being auctioned off.
• Electric Velocipede #25 now on sale.
• New eBook is Available: Conversations With My Cat by Patrick Hester.

Events

• How To Write Science Fiction with Spider Robinson.

Articles

• James Wallace Harris asks Is Heinlein’s Have Space Suit-Will Travel Satire?
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Nancy Kress) on My Favorite Bit: FLASHPOINT.
• Little Red Reviewer on Vintage Science Fiction Strikes Back! [via My Bookish Ways]
• Graham Edwards on My first hobbit.
• Smart Pop Books (Eric Greene) on The Mirror Frakked.
• Jonathan Frakes on Why Roddenberry wanted Riker to have a beard (video).
• All Things From My Brain (Patrick Hester) on An Uncommon Collection Anthology.
• @Comic Vine: Christopher Nolan Reflects On Heath Ledger As The Joker.
• Book Riot on 2013 Calendars for Book Nerds.
• Space.com on Why We’re Mad for Mars.
• Tor.com on Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck.
• Ian Sales on The humungous Locus poll and my picks for it.
• CrimeSpree Blog (Jon Land) on 5 Books That Changed My Life.
• Flavorwire on 25 Notable Books Unfairly Overlooked by ‘The New York Times’.

Art

• 3D Illustrations by Andrzej Kuziola.
• Star Wars Digital Drawings – Robert Shane.
• Concept Art: Big Fire in Neo Egypt.
• Amazing Photo Manipulation – Simone Held.
• Four The Hobbit Midnight IMAX Posters.
• Martha Wells – New Raksura Fan Art.

More Fun Stuff
The Future As Predicted By Peter F. Hamilton, et. at..

• Middle-Earth in Statistics. [via Boing Boing]
• DAW Books Discussion: Revenant Eve by Sherwood Smith.
• Excerpt: Impulse by Steven Gould.
• Chapter 37 of Trust by David Moody.
• 50 Page Fridays: Kevin Hearne.
• Stupefying Stories!
• Get Up Close to Babbage’s Difference Engine in This Gigapixel Image.
• Adorable Pictures of Famous Writers and Their Pets. [via My Bookish Ways]
• Celebrity DNA in space.
• Servants of the Imperium – a Warhammer 40K webcomic.
• A ‘Star Trek: TNG’-style communicator for your shirt.
• Superheroes With Mustaches.

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