Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 3/8/13

Interviews & Profiles

• My Bookish Ways interviews Ariel Djanikian.
• Chuck Wendig interviews Emma Newman.
• The British Fantasy Society interviews Robin Hobb.
• TheForce.Net interviews Michael Reaves.
• The Qwillery interviews Michele Lang.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Julianna Scott (+ Giveaway).

News

• SFWA De-Lists Hydra; Random House Responds.
• Random House Responds to SFWA Slamming Its Hydra Imprint.
• British Academy Games Award Winners Announced.
• George Lucas confirms “final stages of negotiation” with original Star Wars actors.
• Subterranean: 50% Off Preorder Sale.

Events

• Official BBC Three-Day Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Event For November.

Crowd Funding
Write The Future – A new micro-conference on science, technology, communication and fiction, organised by the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Articles

• Marie Brennan on More thoughts on the epic fantasy thing.
• Tor.com (Karina Cooper) on LGBTQ Characters: If They’re In My Life They Should Be in the Fiction I Read.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Binge Reading.
• Deborah J. Ross on The Feathered Edge: Editing Tanith Lee, With Sword and Chameleon.
• Black Gate (Sarah Avery) on Teaching and Fantasy Literature: Taking the SAT? Montag to the Rescue!
• Whatever on The Big Idea: Deb Coates.
• Salon.com asks What happened to Orson Scott Card? [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Krzysztof K. Kietzman on Constructs Of Innocence In Selected Works Of Cyberpunk Fiction (PDF).
• Warren Ellis (Rachel Armstrong) on Where The Future Went.
• David Brin on Questions I’m often asked. Part II: About Science Fiction.
• Michael May on Tarzan 101 | Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.
• Cory Doctorow on Ten Years On.
• Steve Umstead on My view on authors tweeting/retweeting – you may not like this.
• Lawrence Person on Problems in Fantasy Perception.
• Michael Stackpole on 7 Traits of Enduring Characters.
• Smart Pop Books (David Hopkins) on The Hero Wears the Hat.
• Missions Unknown (Scott Cupp) on Forgotten Book: The Constantine Affliction by T. Aaron Payton.
• Amazing Stories (Joshua S. Hill) on Fantasy as History.
• Amazing Stories (Felicity Savage) on Ora Pro Nobis. The Zombies Are Coming.
• Amazing Stories (Chris Gerwel) on Riding into Space – Westerns and Speculative Fiction.
• BBC News asks What if you could mine the Moon? [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Guardian on The Book of the New Sun: science fiction's Ulysses?
• Wired.com on Sun Tzu Would Have Ruled at StarCraft.
• Kirkus (Patrick Hester) on Marvel Adapts 'Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz' in Comic Form.
• Tammy Salyer on Top 5 Inspirations For Why I Write Science Fiction.
• WhatCulture on 10 Fantastic Asian Horror Films You Must See Before You Die.
• Apex (Lesley Conner) on March Noir: Top 10 Classic Film Noir Clichés that aren’t Clichés.
• This Is Horror on Must Read Horror Books for World Book Day.

Art

• Comic Book Artist Gallery: Tim Sale.
• Creature Spot – Recent stuff by Brent Hollowell.
• Robotic rescue ship by Vitaly Bulgarov.
• Brandon Sanderson’s The Rithmatist UK Cover Reveal.

More Fun Stuff

• Blood of Dragons (Excerpt) by Robin Hobb.
• The Lost (Excerpt) by Vicki Pettersson.
• Read an exclusive excerpt from Joe Hill's scary new novel NOS4A2.
• In Transit – an extract from the novella by Keith Brooke and Eric Brown.
• Fahrenheit 451 Book Design Includes Match & Striking Paper.
• A Library for the Subway.
• Warren Ellis – Scatterlands 014.
• Joss Whedon does William Shakespeare!

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