Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 2/6/13

Interviews & Profiles

• Kindle Post interviews Marissa Meyer.
• The Galaxy Express (Heather Massey) interviews Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris.
• Apex Magazine interviews Kate Elliott.
• Dark Wolf interviews Kaaron Warren.
• The Qwillery interviews Betsy Dornbusch.
• Blogcritics interviews Marie Brennan.
• The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy interviews Karen Russell.
• LitReactor interviews Aimee Bender.
• Mur Lafferty interviews David Lubar.
• Suvudu interviews Robert V.S. Redick.
• Zachary Jernigan interviews Ben Burgis.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews C.C. Finlay.
• Lightspeed Magazine interviews Marly Youmans.
• My Bookish Ways interviews RS Belcher (+ Giveaway).
• Weird Fiction Review interviews Helen Marshall.
• Weird Fiction Review profiles Jamaica Kincaid.

News

• George R.R. Martin signs a deal with HBO for two more years.
• Disney Confirms Six-Year Star Wars Plan, Standalone Films, Character Spin-Offs.
• Now open: Bookish, an online community for book lovers. [via Paul Di Filippo via Publishers Weekly]
• Gollancz announces the launch of our Gollancz Geeks to protect genre fiction for the future.
• Angry Robots’ Short Story Singles includes fiction by Matt Hughes, Guy Haley, Maurice Broaddus and more .
• 50% Off: Snakes by Travis Heermann.
• New eBook: Consumption by Patrick Hester now available from Amazon.

Articles

• Seanan McGuire on InCryptid Q&A, Part I: Blind spots.
• Apex Magazine (Sarah Monette) on Welcome to the Reformation, Bitches.
• Apex Magazine (Kate Elliott) on My Voice is in My Sword.
• SFWA (Jenn Reese) on An Introduction to Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction, Part 2: Content.
• Slate (Alyssa Rosenbergasjson Will Marvel's next heroines be more than just sexpots?
• Kate Locke on This Day in Alternate History.
• Deborah J. Ross (Catherine Lundoff) on Organizations Building Diversity in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
• Neil Gaiman on A VERY late Blog, about trying to make art with a lot of people, including you….
• John Scalzi on The Big Idea with Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.
• Marc Bernardin on Being a Black Writer of Comic Books.
• A. Lee Martinez on The Crowd.
• Adam Christopher on Storytelling in the graphic form, or why writing comics is the bomb.
• Smart Pop Books (Diana Peterfreund) on Sharper Than a Seraph Blade.
• Scott Marlowe asks on Do book descriptions matter?
• Amazing Stories (Matt Mitrovich) on Elementary, my dear Watson-bot 2.0.
• Amazing Stories (Cait Coker) on The History of Fantasy, Part II: Barbarians and Elves and Jesus Figures and D20s.
• The World in the Satin Bag on The 2012 WISB Awards.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on 2013 Projects.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter on The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett.
• Stainless Steel Droppings on The Human Division, Episode 4: A Voice in the Wilderness by John Scalzi.
• On Starships and Dragon Wings on on Taking Notes While Reading and Top Ten Best Bookish Memories.
• Charlie Jane Anders lists All the Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Can't Afford to Miss in February.
• L.B. Gale on Three Ways a Standalone Yoda Film Could Work (and Three Things to Avoid).
• Chuck Wendig has 25 Thoughts On Book Piracy.

Art

• Sci-fi Art: Sand Shuttle.
• Fantasy Art: Black 3.
• Creature Spot – alienface.
• Shadow of the Colossus – by Eduardo Domínguez.
• Surreal Sci-Fi Anatomy Art.
• Digital Illustrations by Veli Nyström.
• Boba Fett Redesign.
• Star Wars Illustrations by Jam-Wah.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt: Homeland by Cory Doctorow.
• PDF Preview: American Comic Book Chronicles: 1960-64.
• Classic Milk Commerical with Cows in Space!
• Star Wars Saga Galaxy Map.

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