Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 2/21/13

Interviews & Profiles

• Civilian Reader interviews Liesel Schwarz.
• SF Squeecast chats with Amber Benson.
• Fast Forward video-interviews John Scalzi.
• Book View Cafe Blog interviews Cat Kimbriel.
• The Qwillery interviews Rita Leganski.
• Scott Marlowe interviews Andi O'Connor.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing podcast-interviews Kevin J. Anderson.
• Suvudu readers interview Terry Brooks.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Mark Alpert.
• Shimmer interviews Dennis Ginoza.
• Nightmare Magazine interviews Ted Kosmatka.
• Nightmare Magazine interviews Sergio Diaz.
• Brooklyn Vegan interviews Shane Carruth. [via io9]
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast-interviews Gregory Maguire.
• Roanoke.com (Mike Allen) interviews Peter Davison.

News

• Obituary: Daniel Pearlman.
• Indie Booksellers Sue Amazon, Big Six over E-book DRM.
• Ray Bradbury's work finally available digitally in the UK
• A live-action movie based on All You Need Is Kill starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt is now in production. [via Haikasoru press release]
• Ender’s Game‘s Orson Scott Card's Anti-Gay Views Pose Risks for Film. [via Andrew Porter]
• The 39th Annual Saturn Awards Nominations Announced..
• The nomination period for the 2013 Sir Julius Vogel Awards is now oen. [via Andrew Porter]

Events

• China Miéville’s story is being performed by the Lifeline Theatre in Chicago.
• Emma Newman’s Between Two Thorns – signing and competition details.
• The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings presents Ken Liu & Robin Wasserman, Wednesday, March 6th, at The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art in NYC (guest-hoiseted by Douglas Cohen & John Joseph Adams).
• As part of the Fantastic Fiction free reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Leanna Renee Hieber (Gothic) & Alethea Kontis (Enchanted) Wednesday March 20th, 7pm at KGB Bar in NYC.
• June 15, 2013: JayCon XIII!

Articles

• Bad Reputation (Alyson Macdonald) on Young Avengers #1: Sex and the Female Gaze.
• Bad Reputation (Maura McHugh) on More Women In Horror for 2013.
• Bad Reputation (Chris Farnell) on Women In Horror Month: Women Killing Zombies.
• Genevieve Valentine on Anatomy of a Movie I’m Skipping: Jack the Giant Slayer.
• RT Book Reviews (Karen Lord) on The Boundaries Of Science Fiction And Romance.
• Gail Carriger on Event Report: Steampunk & Avid Reader.
• NPR (Glen Weldon) on LGBT Characters In Graphic Novels.
• Whatever on The Big Idea: Karen Heuler.
• David Brin on Exciting possibilities in (and about) space.
• Warren Ellis on Boiling Spacetime: How Time Works In The Graphic Novel.
• Ian Sales on My trip into space.
• Ian Sales on Why Television Sci-Fi Sucks.
• Book View Cafe Blog (Steven Harper Piziks) on Mad Scientists and the Igors Who Love Them.
• Fantasy Faction (Eric Christensen) on Libraries, Readers, and The Future of Publishing.
• Tor.com (Niall Alexander) on British Genre Fiction Focus: Different Kingdoms of Faith in Fiction.
• TorUK on Your Publishing Questions Answered.
• Amazing Stories (Astrid Nielsch) on Unicorn.
• Amazing Stories (Samantha Henry) on Will Wonder Woman Finally Make Her TV Comeback?
• Amazing Stories (Zachary Clemente) on Sequential Wednesdays #1 – Rockwell's Masked Heroes.
• Amazing Stories (R.K. Troughton) on Top Ten RPG Game Systems of All Time.
• Amazing Stories (Steve Davidson) on Mouldy Old History.
• Andrew Wheeler on Borrowing E-Books.
• NYTimes on Flaws Found in Fredric Wertham’s Comic-Book Studies. [via Andrew Porter]
• Kirkus Reviews (Andrew Liptak) on John Campbell Jr., Astounding Magazine and the Start of the Golden Age.
• Kirkus Reviews (Me!) on Read All About It: Planetary Destruction by Asteroid, Meteor and Comet.
• Functional Nerds (JT Evans) on What Are Role Playing Games?.
• The Night Bazaar (Michael J. Martinez) on Of gods and aliens.
• Deadline on Behind The Boycott Of DragonCon Over Co-Founder Accused Of Child Molestation.
• The Atlantic on 'Star Wars' Needs a New Approach to Gender—Not Just More Women.
• WSJ on Cory Doctorw’ Homeland.
• Boing Boing on The Art of Dead Space: book preview.
• Timothy C. Ward on Second Shift – Order by Hugh Howey.
• Dorkly Article on The 10 Most Miserable Creatures in the Pokemon World.
• Francis Knight on Top 6 Anti-heroes in film and literature.
• Mike Brotherton on 8 Science Fiction Tropes of Convenience.

Art

• Rad Concept Art Illustrations by Alex Tooth.
• Sci-fi movie posters by Dani Blázquez.
• Green Goblin by Sheridan-j.
• To Catch A Beast by Sheridan-j.
• Underdark by Aeon-Lux.
• I saw the suns of Skyland by Aeon-Lux.
• Fantasy Art: Fantasy Illustration.
• Concept Art: Ogre Cannons.
• Avatar Characters by Yu Cheng Hong.
• Concept ships by Rico Kersten.
• The Skywalkers comic series by Renata Castellani.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt from To Hell and Back: Hell to Pay by Matt Hughes.
• The Art of Wishing (Excerpt) by Lindsay Ribar.
• The Matrix (Excerpt) by Jo Bannister.
• DAW Books Discussion: The Silent Dragon by Irene Radford.
• Robert A. Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy Graphic Novel by Eric Gignac.
• StarShipSofa #277 features fiction by David D. Levine.
• Sword & Laser Podcast #121 – A bird too far.
• NASA – Dragon Prepares to Resupply Station. [via The Lensman's Children]
• Vampire Timeline.
• Video of launch for Gideon’s Angel by Clifford Beal.
• Batman vs. Zippy the Pinhead.