SF Tidbits for 5/25/09
- Retro-Cover Pr0n: Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell show off the 1970’s cover art for of The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian.
- Interviews & Profiles:
- @The Guardian: How Ursula K. Le Guin led a generation away from realism: “The most vital writers of my generation have been weaned from a puritanical distrust of imagination by her influence.”
- Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources has 6 questions for Robot 13 writer Thomas Hall.
- @SFX: Linda Hamilton talks about Christian Bale and Terminator.
- @The Galaxy Express: Jennifer Dunne, as part of The History of the Science Fiction Romance Newsletter, Part I.
- The Geeks of Doom round up Terminator: Salvation-related books.
- Jeremiah Tolbert says Writers Should Not Blog About Writing: “…some things writers like to blog about are just plain boring or, worse, portray them in a negative light.” [via The World in the Satin Bag]
- Locus Online has posted the contents of the June 2009 issue of Locus Magazine.
- Website: Plots with Ray Guns = noir & transgressive fiction, as long as it has a ray gun in it somehow, some way. [via Victor Gischler, author of Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse]
- Paul Levinson reviews the new Trek.
- Lists:
- Purple Slinky lists 5 Five Reasons Flying Cars Will Remain Unavailable.
- @Cracked: 7 WTF Military Weapons You Won’t Believe They Actually Built. [via Bibliophile Stalker]
Jeremiah Tolbert makes a lot of sense here. Good advice.
John, thanks for linking to my interview with Jennifer Dunne. Hope you had a nice holiday weekend!