Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 2/19/13

Interviews & Profiles

• My Bookish Ways interviews Francis Knight.
• Notes from Coode Street welcomes Cecelia Holland.
• Alex Bledsoe interviews Vanessa Horrocks.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews R.S. Belcher (Part 2).
• Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Jon Armstrong.
• This Is Horror podcast-interviews David Moody.
• Shimmer interviews Rebecca Emanuelsen.
• Apex interviews LaShawn M. Wanak.
• A video interview with Gav Thorpe.
• Flickering Myth interviews Colleen Atwood.
• Lifehacker readers interviews Jamie Todd Rubin.

News

• Strange Chemistry signs Amalie Howard.
• Angry Robot Signs Tim Waggoner’s Brand New Urban Fantasy Series.
• Orbit Books announces Simon Morden’s The Petrovitch Trilogy eBook Omnibus.

Events

• Raymond Feist England/Scotland tour dates.
• Wesley Chu will be Reading at Open Books, Chicago, on Thursday February 28th.

Articles

• Apex on Women of Horror: Misogyny and Schadenfreude: 400 Years of Treating Female Artists Badly.
• The Night Bazaar (Betsy Dornbusch) on On Religion in SFF.
• iFanboy (Jim Mroczkowski) on BREAKING: Orson Scott Card Eats at Chik-Fil-A.
• Jason Sanford on Today in SF History: Theodore Sturgeon rewrites an already published story. [via Michael Swanwick]
• Grady Hendrix on Fictional Africa Can’t Catch a Break.
• Carrie Cuinn’s Guide to Conventions #1: The Five Best Questions To Ask A Panel of Writers.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on How Writing a Short Story Differs From Writing a Novel.
• Tedd Roberts on On the Road to the Brainships: A Look at the Current Science of Interfacing the Brain.
• Ron Miller on How the Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction Collection Came to Be.
• SciFi Songs (Marie Brennan) on A "Natural History of Dragons" Music Playlist.
• Black Gate (Andrew Zimmerman Jones) on Steampunk Spotlight: Society of Steam Trilogy.
• Black Gate (Scott Taylor) on Art of the Genre: The Weight of Print.
• Fred Kiesche on Another Round at Callahan’s.
• Gollancz blog on Praise the Lord and pass the genre ammunition.
• Ruthless Culture (Jonathan McCalmont) on My Draft Hugo Ballot 2013.
• Neal Asher on Mindgames: Fool's Mate.
• Warren Ellis on Scatterlands 001.
• HorrorMovies on Violent Femmes: The Place of Women in Horror. [via This Is Horror]
• Arrow in the Head on Sell-Out or Not: John Carpenter. [via This Is Horror]

Art

• Beautiful Fantasy Illustrations by Kerem Beyit.
• Digital Art by Wen-JR.
• Man of pipes by *neisbeis.
• 2D Art: Tribute to First Person Shooters.
• Fantasy Art: Daemon Slayer.
• Robots by Mohammad Hossein Aattaran.
• The skulls of superheroes by Alan Maia..
• Doctor Who Posters by Bob Canada.

More Fun Stuff

• Astronomy Picture of the Day: Asteroid 2012 DA14 Passes the Earth (Video).
• DAW Book Discussion: Dead Things by Stephen Blackmoore.
• Harlem Shake – Steampunk Edition.
• Portlandia: Steampunk Convention.
• Doctor Who Infographic by Bob Canada.
• Moss from It Crowd…in LEGO.

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