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

Interviews and Profiles

• Furious Fiction interviews Karin Tidbeck (video).
• Fran Wilde interviews Aliette de Bodard.
• Fantasy Faction interviews Lou Morgan.
• Speculate interviews Joe Abercrombie (podcast).
• Timothy C. Ward interviews Ramez Naam (podcast).
• Los Angeles Times (Irene Lacher) interviews Michael Chabon.
• Locus interviews Elizabeth Bear.
• The Agony Column interviews Tad Williams (podcast).
• Macmlilan interviews Brandon Sanderson (video).

News

• Baen Authors David Weber, John Ringo, Lois McMaster Bujold available on Amazon.com for First Time in Ebook Format.
• Out Soon: The Four Realms.

Articles

• This is Horror (Geoff Brown) on 10 Must Read Australian Horror Writers.
• Book View Cafe (Marie Brennan) on Folktale style.
• Stroppy Author on Who pays the piper?
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Brit Mandelo) on The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2012.
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Tansy Rayner Roberts) on Favourites of 2012.
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Sue Lange) on The 2012 Experience.
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Nancy Jane Moore) on Read and Appreciated in 2012.
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Lynne M. Thomas) on The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing and Listening in 2012.
• Book Life Now (Howard Andrew Jones) on Marketing.
• Genevieve Valentine on Ten Things You Should Know About The Hobbit.
• Grasping for the Wind (R L Copple) on How Much Do Ebooks Cost?
• Tor.com (Stubby the Rocket) on Philip K. Dick Scanned Our Brains, Darkly.
• SF Site (Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams) on Top Ten Time Returns — The First Five and Top Ten Returns — The Big Five Finale.
• Book Hooked Blog on Best Fantasy and Speculative Fiction of 2012.

Reviews

• Rich Horton Summary: F&SF, 2012.
• Locus (Paul Di Filippo) reviews Lois McMaster Bujold.
• SF Site (Matthew Hughes) reviews Desperate Days: Selected Mysteries.

Art

• Bob Eggleton’s Tarzan.
• The Big Reveal: the final cover to Age of Voodoo.
• The Landscape and Sci-fi Paintings of Bobby Myers.
• Illustrations by Boris Vallejo (1, 2, 3).
• Dune Concept Art.

More Cool Stuff

• Free Sample of The Plot to Save Socrates.
• Star Song Chapter Two.
• 8 Lines That Would Have Ended The Lord of the Rings Real Fast.
• Beware the Hairy Mango: “Daryl and the Davenport of Death!” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.

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