Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 1/12/13

Interviews & Profiles

• Nightmare Magazine (E.C. Myers) interviews Ellen Datlow.
• Nightmare Magazine (Erika Holt) interviews Lisa Tuttle.
• SFF World interviews John Birmingham.
• SFF World interviews Robert Dinsdale.
• The Qwillery interviews Elisabeth Staab.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Adrian Faulkner.
• The Roundtable Podcast interviews E. C. Myers.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter spotlights Lee Collins.
• Downpour interviews Chuck Palahniuk.
• Zachary Jernigan interviews Lyle Blake Smythers.

News

• Subterranean Magazine Now Available as Free Downloads.
• Liaden Universe Silver Anniversary.
• Alert: UK Speaker Scam Targets Writers (and Others).
• Now available: 4 Star Stories.
• 2013 Aurora Nominations Open.
• Spielberg’s Robopocalypse delayed but not dead.
• Warner Bros. wins legal victory for control of Superman.
• Streaming Video from Space Will Document Planet Earth.

Events

• Monday, January 14: Ask Gail Carriger anything you want about Soulless and the Parasol Protectorate series.

Articles

• Foz Meadows on What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry | PSA: Your Default Narrative Settings Are Not Apolitical. [via Juliette Wade]
• Kirkus (Ana Grilo) on Short Fiction Full of Awesome.
• Howard Andrew Jones on Ancient Baghdad’s Street Plan.
• Paul Levinson on The Plot to Save Socrates.
• GalleyCat asks Why Do Most Writers Start with Novels?
• Barnes & Noble Book Clubs (Paul Goat Allen) asks Are the Glory Days of Steampunk Over? [via My Bookish Ways]
• Pornokitsch on Friday Five: Five books that should win the Hugo (but probably won’t).
• Tor.com (Jo Walton) on Arthur C. Clarke’s Islands In The Sky.
• Carrie Cuinn on Apex magazine (Issues 40, 41, 42, and 43).
• MobyLives on The wrong goodbye of Barnes and Noble.
• Publishers Weekly on Tor Tests TV Approach for New Scalzi Book.
• Sustainable Business Oregon on Vegetarians only on Mars colony. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Lou Anders on Works I Edited and Art Directed in 2012.
• Adam Callaway on Asking for Help
• SFX on 14 Sci-Fi And Fantasy Movies That Never Happened.
• SFX on 30 Great Sci-Fi Dream Sequences.
• Jamie Todd Rubin on Three things to read, watch, and use.

Art

• Cool Concept Art by Kevin KY Yan.
• Digital Art by Stjepan Sejic.
• John Carter poster by JC Richard.
• Out of darkness.
• John Berkley Art.
• Cover Gallery: Korak, Son of Tarzan.

More Fun Stuff

• Short film adaptation of JG Ballard’s Crash from 1971.
• 50 Page Fridays: Shawntelle Madison.
• Gandalf Problem Solving – A Flowchart. [via Gwenda Bond]
• Wonder Woman’s Password.

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