Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 2/5/13

Interviews & Profiles

• Tor.com interviews Marie Brennan. (See also: Marie Brennan interviews Lady Trent.)
• Tor Books interviews Cherie Priest.
• La Biblioteca de Ilium interviews Christopher Priest.
• Shimmer interviews Christie Yant.
• Dark Matter interviews Kim Westwood.
• The Qwillery interviews Kerry Schafer.
• Every Read Thing interviews Chris F. Holm.
• Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Mike Shevdon.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt interviews Jennifer Campbell-Hicks.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Saul Garnell and David Bischoff.

Crowd Funding

• Beyond Words: A Year of Daydreams (Fantasy Author Calendar) by Lauren Zurchin.
• REMINDER: Lakeside by Waterloo Production.
• REMINDER: Sequence a Science Fiction Writer.

News

• 2013 Crawford Award Winner and Shortlist Announced.
• Raymond E. Feist and George R.R. Martin coming to Supanova Australia this year.
• Now available: The Ansible Edition of Benchmarks Continued: F&SF “Books” Columns 1975-1982 by Algis Budrys.
• Available Soon: Bread & Wine by Samuel R. Delany.
• Tolkien Estate faces bold countersuit over Hobbit slot machines.
• BlackBerry 10 Keep Moving Project with Neil Gaiman, Alicia Keys & More.
• Now open: 2012 Locus Magazine Poll and Survey.

Events

• The Great Steampunk Romance Airship Tour!
• August 23 – 25: NecronomiCon Providence.

Articles

• Sci-Fi Fan Letter (James K. Decker a.k.a. James Knapp) on Conjuring Aliens.
• L.B. Gale on “If George R. R. Martin wrote it, who would die?” (Star Wars Edition).
• The Night Bazaar (Betsy Dornbusch) on Reviews.
• Tor/Forge (James Frenkel) on A Demented Labor of Love.
• Tobias Buckell on What I’m working on right now: Hurricane Fever.
• A Dribble of Ink (Myke Cole) on The Peril of the Contemporary.
• The Big Idea: John Hornor Jacobs.
• Electric Velocipede (John Klima) on Kickstarter and Other Thoughts.
• File 770 on The Comics Hugo.
• Amazing Stories (Cedar Sanderson) on Why Self Publish?
• Fantasy Faction (Ryan Howse) on The Table Theory of Characterization.
• Bradley P. Beaulieu on Update on Lest Our Passage Be Forgotten: Stories and Interior Artwork.
• Tor Books UK on Submitting A Novel To Tor UK.
• Barebones ezine on Batman in the 1970s Part 56: May and June 1978.
• Fembot Collective on CFP: Ada, Issue 3, Feminist Science Fiction.
• Charlie Jane Anders asks Could serialized pulp novels actually be the wave of the (retro) future?
• My Bookish Ways reviews Dead Things by Stephen Blackmoore (+Giveaway).
• Science In My Fiction on Intelligent Science Fiction.
• SFX on The Top 10 things we want to see from Duncan Jones’ Warcraft movie.
• GeekDad on The 10 Most Useful Gadgets From Science Fiction and Comics.
• Smashing Lists on Top 10 Mythical Creatures.
• Smashing Lists on Top 10 Futuristic Weapons Currently in Development.
• Smashing Lists on Top Ten Theories of Edgar Allan Poe’s Death. [via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine]
• The Passive Voice on 10 Writing “Rules” We Wish More Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Would Break.
• The Geek Twins on The 25 Greatest Aliens of All Time You Voted For.
• Gail Carriger on 5 Questions of Victorian Etiquette.

Art

• Storm Is Coming.
• Ogrun Assault Corps.
• Wallpaper: Fade to Black.
• Things We Saw Today: Up‘s Carl and Russell as Batman and Robin.
• Superheroes IRL.
• Batman of the Future.

More Fun Stuff

• The Great Lake Conspiracy — A Mustache and the Mutt Mystery (Audio Drama for Jay Lake).
• Trafalgar (Excerpt) by Angelica Gorodischer.
• The Inexplicables (exceprt) Cherie Priest.
• Cover & Synopsis for Maul: Lockdown by Joe Schreiber.
• TV Teaser for Stephen King's Under the Dome.
• Possibly the greatest ad for books, ever.
• Sigourney, Wake Up!

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