Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 1/7/13

Interviews & Profiles

• The Asian American Literary Review interviews E. Lily Yu, interviews Charles Yu and interviews Ken Liu.
• The Luv NV interviews Melissa McPhail.
• Waylines interviews Cat Rambo and Christopher Barzak.
• Apex interviews Katerina Stoykova-Klemer.

News

• "Doctor Who" Gets 50th Anniversary E-Shorts.
• 'Teleport Us' – LitReactor's Sci-Fi Writing Challenge.
• David E. Kelley: 'Wonder Woman' Reboot Still 'Viable' for TV.
• The Australian Specfic in Focus reviews website is now closed
• NASA seeking to lease or sell space-shuttle facilities.
• Doctor Who short stories coming from children’s authors.

Articles

• Damien G. Walter on Writing and the attention economy.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts on Award-winning Australian Women (SF, Horror and Fantasy Books) 2012.
• Emma Newman on Running out of buffers.
• Book View Cafe Blog (Sherwood Smith) on Books you didn’t love.
• NPR (Saladin Ahmed) on At Home In Fantasy's Nerd-Built Worlds.
• Alex Scarrow asks When Will YA Sci-Fi Finally Arrive?
• Ken Liu on Translation.
• Edward Willett on You got fantasy in my reality!
• Jason Sanford on Dead online magazines and journals.
• Graham Edwards on Around the solar system in 90 seconds.
• Biblioklept on H.P. Lovecraft’s Advice to Young Writers.
• The Night Bazaar (Richard Lee Byers) on My (short) list of the Best of 2012.
• LockerGnome on Why It's Important That Han Shot First. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• The Atlantic on A Martian Dream: Here's What the Red Planet Would Look Like With Earth-Like Oceans and Life.
• Locus Roundtable (Karen Burnham) on Five Science Fiction Novels that I’ve Read that Handle Character Really Well.
• The Founding Fields on Top 25 Series I Want To Read in 2013.
• Spinoff Online on 5 Episodes to Get You Into Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
• The Guardian on One giant leap for science fiction: how Gollancz has gone digital.
• You The Designer on Superheroes and the Genius Behind Them.
• The Book Smugglers (Aidan Moher) on Three Novels You Should Read in 2013.
• Squidoo on Best Horror Movies 2013.
• To Be Read Books on 11 Great Robot Stories To Tide You Over Until Pacific Rim.
• Jump the Curve on A Futurist's Top Ten Books of 2012.
• The Atlantic Wire on Y.A. to Watch for: The Winter 2013 Preview.
• The Guardian on 2013: the year ahead in books.

Art

• Adrift conceptart 08 by ~paooo on deviantART.
• Comic Book Artist Gallery: Dave Gibbons.
• The Droids in the Desert by Ralph McQuarrie.
• BlickeDeeler – Cargo.
• Vintage Pin-up Catwoman & Harley Quinn, by voodoodad.
• Sebastien Hue’s Awesome Sci-Fi Environments and Matte Paintings.

More Fun Stuff

• Letter Reveals Why Kubrick Worried About Offending IBM With 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Starship Modeler: Gallery (2001).
• Kickstarter Boost: Sword of the Ronin – A novel project by Travis Heermann — .
• Paul Levinson: Reading from The Plot to Save Socrates – in Second Life.
• NASA video of sun eruptions is a ballet of light.
• B5 Scrolls.
• The Anime Map of Japan.