Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 2/23/13

Interviews & Profiles

• Hasslein Blog interviews Nancy Collins. [via The Cultural Gutter]
• Lytherus interviews Christopher Paolini.
• Tor.com interviews Adrian Tchaikovsky.
• The Roundtable Podcast interviews Hugh Howey.

News

• Amazon, Publishers Sued For Antitrust Violations Over DRM By Angry Indie Bookstores.
• Gardner Dozois Joins Clarkesworld Magazine.
• Bradley P. Beaulieu leaves publisher, re-launches The Lays of Anuskaya as self-published series.
• SFX now on Kindle.
• San Diego State University Receives $2.25M Sci-Fi collection.

Events

• LoneStarCon 3 Announces Pulp-O-Mizer Competition.

Crodfunding Bits

• SYMBIOSIS: A Creative Commons art book by Steven Sanders.

Articles

• Tor.com (Brit Mandelo) on Dear Joanna Russ: A Letter for an Inimitable Writer.
• Whatever on The Big Idea: Miriam Forster.
• The Qwillery (Joshua Alan Parry) on Pink Girl in a Cruel World.
• Amazing Stories (M.D. Jackson) on Women in Armour vs. Chicks in Chain-mail.
• Amazing Stories (Mike Brotherton) on Ten Totally Illogical Science Fiction Premises.
• Lytherus (Christopher Paolini) on world building for Inheritance and future works.
• Genevieve Valentine on Ten Things You Should Know About Beautiful Creatures.
• On Starships and Dragonwings on Who Belongs in the YA Section?.
• The Barnes & Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on Sophomore Honor Roll.
• Edward Willett on A sneak peek at Masks.
• Grady Hendrix on Space Pirates in Space.
• William King on Author’s Notes: Weaver of Shadow.
• Graham Edwards on The storyteller eternal.
• Rambling On (Anthony R. Cardno) on Fireside Kickstarter Year Two.
• Locus Online Reviews (Paul Di Filippo) on Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer.
• Tor.com on Your Publishing Questions Answered.
• Space.com on Why the Higgs Boson May Seal Fate of the Universe.
• Slate on Human extinction: Could a mass extinction kill Homo sapiens?
• WSJ.com on Authors Buy Their Way Onto Best-Seller Lists.
• BBC News on James Patterson urges more dads to read to children.
• Ed Gorman on Ten Overlooked Classics. [via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine]
• Moviefone on Top 10 Nightmare-Inducing Movie Aliens.
• Giant Freakin Robot on The Seven Best Films About Close Encounters.
• Mark Hamill on Star Wars: Episode VII “They’re talking to us”.
• Guardian on The great sci-fi hunt: help us find the best independently published books.

Art

• Epic Star Wars Illustrations.
• Concept ships by Joseph Cross.
• Prime Books Cover Designs, January 2013 to August 2013.
• 2D Art: Talisman Highland – Mountain Dragon.
• Digital Painting: Bugbear Mercenary.
• Creature Spot – Some alien and monkey things.
• Cover Art & Synopsis | The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Guardian by Jack Campbell.
• GOD’S WAR by Kameron Hurley- UK Cover Reveal.

More Fun Stuff

• Game of Thrones: The King's Roadmap – An interactive journey through seasons 1, 2 and 3.
• Neil Gaiman Introduces Fortunately, The Milk.
• Written in Red (Excerpt) by Anne Bishop.
• The Shape Stealer (Excerpt) by Lee Carroll.
• Grand Canyon (Excerpt) by Vita Sackville-West.
• An Excerpt From Mars Direct: Space Exploration, The Red Planet, And The Human Future by Robert Zubrin.
• Deborah J. Ross: Jaydium – Chapter 34.
• 50 Page Fridays: Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.
• Robopocalypse Gets the Taiwanese Animation Treatment.
• Book Trailer: The Six-Gun Tarot by R.S. Belcher.
• A Jetpack Solves Everything.
• 8 New and Necessary Punctuation Marks. [via Mindy Klasky]
• xkcd: Time Robot.
• Penguin Mug: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orange).