Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 2/1/13

Interviews & Profiles

• The Millions interviews Ursula K. Le Guin.
• Apex interviews Seanan McGuire.
• Karen McMillan interview Helen Lowe.
• Waylines interviews Cat Rambo.
• Authors@Google Video: Ramez Naam.
• his Is Horror interviews Carole Johnstone.
• Fantasy Literature interviews R.S. Belcher.
• My Bookish Ways interviews John Lansing.
• Readers interview A. Lee Martinez.
• The Cult of Me interviews Scott Marlowe.
• Ginger Nuts Of Horror interviews Nicholas Vince.

News

• Tamora Pierce was the recipient of this year’s Margaret A. Edwards Award.
• Rachel Hartman won the William C. Morris Award for best debut fiction for her novel Seraphina.
• The SFR Galaxy Awards Has Launched.
• Award-winning Zargari Brothers make Philip K. Dick Sci-Fi Film.
• This Is Horror on This Is Horror Awards 2012: The Winners.
• Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation gets a facelift.
• The World SF Travel Fund needs YOU!

Events

• Cory Doctorow touring for Homeland.

Articles

• Gollancz blog (Paula Weston) on angels and demons in paranormal/fantasy novels.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Hiring Editors.
• Lois Gersh (Jennifer Stevenson) on Dancing With Cupid: How mango sex saved my bacon and restored a defrocked Hindu love god’s wicked reputation.
• Black Gate (Sarah Avery) on Teaching and Fantasy Literature: When All Stories Were Fantasy Stories.
• Scalzi’s The Big Idea features Sharon Short.
• Book View Cafe Blog (Nancy Jane Moore) on Women in Combat.
• Brian Ruckley on Saga of the Exiles.
• Michael Flynn on Random Thoughts on the White Room. [via Juliette Wade]
• GalleyCat on The Financial Reality of a Genre Novelist.
• Fantasy Faction on Writing Rules and Fantasy – Stories Need Conflict.
• Mark W. Tiedemann on Multitasking.
• Pornokitsch (James Smythe) on Hindsight.
• Warren Ellis on Love is Strange, Bruce Sterling.
• Smart Pop Books (Keith R. A. Decandido) on The Madness of King George.
• The AudioBookaneers on Release Week: Jay Lake’s Kalimpura, James P. Blaylock’s The Aysleford Skull, Norse Code, and (of course) another episode of The Human Division.
• Tor.com on Fiction Affliction: February Releases in Urban Fantasy.
• Amazing Stories (Bill Spangler) on Return of the Space Cadet.
• Amazing Stories (Felicity Savage) on The First Poem Written in Space.
• Amazing Stories (C E Martin) on Classic SFF for the kids.
• Amazing Stories (Chris Gerwel) on Crossroads: Tripping the Noir Fantastic.
• Omnivoracious on Get Smitten With Zombie Romance.
• Kirkus (Patrick Hester) on Blog Post: That Other Charlaine Harris Series.
• The World in the Satin Bag on Rethinking Superhero Ethics and Myke Cole's Shadow Ops Series.
• The Cultural Gutter on Loving the Alien: Superman and Masculinity.
• Space.com on Blue Origin: Quiet Plans for Spaceships.
• BBC News on The history of the future in 10 images. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• 2012 Poetry Recommendations by Editors Erzebet YellowBoy, Alexa Seidel, Adrienne J. Odasso, Rose Lemberg, Samantha Henderson, Mitchell Hart, Romie Faienza, and Amal El-Mohtar. [via Mike Allen]
• Guardian lists Dan Abnett's top 10 fantasy mash-ups.

Art

• Cover Art: Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger.
• Revenger.
• My Fairy.
• Hollow Sun.
• Circumstances under Control by surrealizer.
• Medusa by MissPendleton.
• robod by JulienTruman.
• Dragon Hunting by Vadly.
• Apocalypse Hydra.
• concept ships: Skull Leader by Numioh.
• Production Art from Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt: Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger.
• Excerpt: Self-Reference ENGINE by Enjoe Toh.
• Superman #6 Re-Skinned as Various Pop Culture Icons by Mike Mitchell.
• SciFiChick’s Warehouse 13 Set Tour.
• Geektastic Crocheted Doctor Who and TARDIS.
• Astronaut's Amazing Photos of Earth From Space.
• This Batbane mask is yours for $130.

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