Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 1/10/13

Interviews & Profiles

• The Best American Poetry interviews L. Timmel Duchamp.
• Civilian Reader interviews Paul Cornell.
• Agony Column Podcast interviews Andrew P. Mayer.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Paul Cleave.
• Ginger Nuts Of Horror interviews Richard Gavin.
• John Joseph Adams interviews Jonathan Maberry.
• Guardian interviews Eoin Colfer.
• Ideas Captured interviews Paul Di Filippo.

Kickboost

• Lakeside – Documentary about SF writer Jay Lake.

News

• Spielberg has nixed plans to shoot the literary adaptation of Robopocalypse.
• Joe Lansdale Deal Signed For Original Psychological Horror Novella.
• Titan Books Launches New Comic Book Imprint Titan Comics.

Events

• Saturday January 12: Rudy Rucker art show at Borderlands in San Francisco.
• Orbit Books: January Author Events.
• Upcoming ForbiddenPlanet events .

Articles

• Mary Robinette Kowal on The difference between audience and market.
• John Scalzi on Answering Questions About The Human Division, (Probably) Part I.
• A. Lee Martinez on Rocket Unknown.
• Edward Willett on My introduction to science fiction for non-SF audiences.
• Joseph Mallozzi on Days of Stargate Atlantis Past continues with season 5′s The Seed.
• Boing Boing on The 'Comet of the Century'…and other night-sky highlights for 2013.
• The Atlantic on Space Cartoons to Space Psychedelia: How Sci-Fi Book Covers Evolved. [via io9]
• Omnivoracious on A Series in Time: Robert Jordan's Extraordinary Saga Ends.
• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin on Pacing and Narrative Structure: How The Hobbit and Django Unchained Screwed Up.
• Jamie Todd Rubin on Help Out Jay Lake.
• The Lensman's Children on Pay It Forward.
• Alastair Reynolds on Eligible works.
• The AudioBookaneers on New audiobook Releases.
• The AudioBookaneers on 2012 Year in Review, Part 1: Our Favorite Listens.
• Flavorwire on The Scariest Scenes in Cinema.
• Flavorwire on 10 Works of Literary Fantasy to Jump Start Your Imagination.
• Charlie Jane Anders on All the Essential Science Fiction and Fantasy Books That Are Coming in 2013.
• The World SF Blog on The Best Fan Writer Hugo.
• Jim C. Hines on Five More Potential Hugo Fan Writer Nominees.

Art

• Todd Lockwood art.
• Cool Art: 'V For Vendetta' by César Moreno.
• concept robots: Mecha by John Yip.
• Creature Spot – Fat alien.
• Wallpaper: Ice Forged by Gail Z. Martin.
• Charles Stross Covers Launch: Merchant Princes Omnibuses.

More Fun Stuff

• NASA Astronaut Takes You On A Guided Tour Of The ISS.
• Video: Watch the Entire Dark Knight Movie Trilogy in Three Minutes. (Spoilers!)
• Lego Harry Potter Castle.
• HAL 9000 Finally Realized, Alive & Responsive.
• Darth Vader Can’t Hear You.
• Infographic: Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years.

Filed under: Tidbits

Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!