Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 2/20/13

Interviews & Profiles

• My Bookish Ways interviews Gillian Philip (+ Giveaway).
• The Qwillery interviews Gillian Philip.
• Tor.com interviews Evie Manieri.
• Literary Escapism interviews Marie Brennan.
• Weird Fiction Review profiles Caitlín R. Kiernan.
• Weird Fiction Review interviews Will Ludwigsen.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews Carrie Vaughn.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews John Crowley.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews Steven Erikson.
• The Comics Journal interviews Maurice Sendak.
• The Galaxy Express interviews Charlene Wilson.
• Shimmer interviews Greg Leunig.
• Tor Books UK interviews Adrian Tchaikovsky.

News

• John Scalzi announces Morning Star Alpha: A Next-Generation Graphic Novel.
• Lavie Tidhar’s The Violent Century sold to Hodder & Stoughton in the UK, in a two-book deal.
• BVC Announces Dash of Enchantment by Patricia Rice, The Eighth Successor by Pati Nagle, and Freeze Frames by Katharine Kerr.
• Download Calendar of Tales: 12 New Neil Gaiman Stories for Free!
• Second Life Creators Launch Interactive Storytelling Platform.
• Good cause: Con or Bust.

Events

• Talk to Mad Scientists Authors TODAY on #TorChat.
• Cory Doctorow on Bookish Twitter Chat This Friday.
• R.A. Salvatore To Be On The Geeky Pleasures Radio Show March 8, 2013.
• Wed. March 6: NY Review of SF: Robin Wasserman & Ken Liu: Oz Reimagined.
• Anne Bishop Virtual Booksigning.

Articles

• Mary Robinette Kowal on My Favorite Bit: Laura Lam talks about Pantomime.
• SFF World (Evie Manieri) on How has your time in the theater and acting influenced your writing?
• David Drake on Manly Wade Wellman, Reporter.
• Michael May's Adventureblog (G.W. Thomas) on Hawk Carse.
• Things Unremembered on Capricon Follow-up: Notes from the International SF/F panel.
• Scott Marlowe on Why I Don’t Write About Dragons.
• A. Lee Martinez on Die Hard: The Phantom Menace Legacy.
• Bookish on Warm Bodies and Alien Hearts: Ill-Fated Romances.
• Amazing Stories (Sam Costello) on Genres Get Unstuck, or My New Favorite Literary Magazine.
• Amazing Stories (Michael J. Sullivan) on Epic Fantasy Analysis Feb 17, 2013.
• Amazing Stories (Lesley Smith) on Walking unto Death.
• Guardian on Rise of the robots: what will the future of work look like? [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Slate on Mad Max: Fury Road filming and environmental damage in Namibia. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter reviews Dualed by Elsie Chapman.
• Stainless Steel Droppings reviews The Back Channel by John Scalzi.
• Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Forgotten Film: The Orphanage (2007).
• The Retroist on 80s Fantasy Throwing Weapons.

Art

• Cover Reveal for The Lays of Anuskaya by Bradley P. Beaulieu.
• Cover reveal: This is the Age of Godpunk.
• Exceptional Concept Art by Zeen JingHui.
• Digital Paintings by Daniel Kordek.
• concept ships: Drake Cutlass fighter by Roberts Space Industries.
• Digital Painting: Habbeddiheppstrumpf.

More Fun Stuff

• Midnight Blue Light Special (Excerpt) by Seanan McGuire.
• Trinity Rising (Excerpt) by Elspeth Cooper.
• Extract from Guy Gavriel Kay’s River Of Stars.
• Ender’s Game Salamander Army Logo.
• Penguin Mug: Nineteen Eighty-Four.
• Map of the Revelation Space universe.
• Everyone Has to Start Somewhere.
• The Dalek Commute.

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