Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 12/14/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Bookwitch interviews Elizabeth Wein.
• Chuck Wendig interviews Michael R. Underwood.
• Ginger Nuts of Horror interviews Gary McMahon, Dave Watson.
• SF Mag interviews Alastair Reynolds.

News

• Donate to the SFWA medical fund (or risk the wrath of Gandalf).
• Coming Soon: Warpaint by Holly Lisle.
• David Levine’s website gets a facelift.
• Tallow Candle: Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘first work’.

Events

• Announcing the 20-city US tour for Homeland, the sequel to Little Brother.
• Listen to Wintery Genre Readings in Brooklyn This Friday.

Articles

• Charles Stross (Stina Leicht) on The Algebraic Properties of Equality in SF.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Writing Like It’s 2009.
• Juliette Wade on Questioning the Monologue of Evil Triumph.
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Rebecca Ore ) on Nicaragua and Alexandria.
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Christopher Barzak ) on The Year in Review.
• Cheryl Morgan on Women In Sensible Social Situations.
• Jim C. Hines on Wait, What Were We Laughing At?
• Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice 2012: The Best Books We Read This Year.
• Tor.com (Scott Bakal) on Creating the Art for Kathryn Cramer’s “Am I Free to Go?”.
• Tor Books Blog (Louise Buckley) on Maps: From Concept to Finished Design.
• Black Gate (Sarah Avery) on Teaching and Fantasy Literature: More on Writing, and Teaching, on Your Feet.
• Fantasy Faction on The Craft – Part Five: Criticism.
• SciFi Bloggers on Songs Inspired by Classic Works of Sci-Fi and Fantasy.
• Tor.com (Grady Hendrix) on The Great Stephen King Reread: Firestarter.
• Orbit (Ellen Wright) on What has The Hobbit meant to you?
• Arcfinity (Jon Turney) on Forever Alone Drone.

Reviews

• Locus (Paul Di Filippo) reviews Allen Steele.
• The Guardian (Damien Walter) on Alif the Unseen: speculative fiction meets the Arab spring.
• Barnes & Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) reviews Antifragile.
• My Bookish Ways reviews The Colony.
• The Functional Nerds (Catherine Russell) reviews Libriomancer.

Art

• Megaman Solitude by artgerm.
• Lord of the rings posters by Olly Moss.
• Dragon Boats by Neil MacCormack.
• Glog Guard by David Levy.
• A Ordem dos Arquivistas by Yuji Schmidt.
• Cover Reveal: Dreams and Shadows.

More Cool Stuff

• A Natural History of Dragons (Excerpt).
• The Soddit – Chapter 3.
• Weird news: White House must respond to petition to build a Death Star.
• Why Gandalf Never Uses the Giant Eagles.

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