Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 2/23/13
By John DeNardo |
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 at
12:05 am
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
Crodfunding Bits
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).
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