SF Tidbits for 8/26/09
- Interviews and Profiles:
- @If You’re Just Joining Us: Jeff VanderMeer.
- In a video over at Angry Robot Books, Dan Abnett talks about writing.
- @The Nebula Awards website: Jeffrey Ford.
- The Los Angeles Times profiles John Twelve Hawks…kinda…since he writes anonymously.
- @Suite101.com: Esther Friesner.
- @BoingBoing: An exit interview with Doctor Who: David Tennant and Russell T. Davies, interviewed by Richard Metzger.
- John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to C.L. Anderson, author of Bitter Angels.
- Jay Lake on The Kindle $9.99 boycott vs Green.
- Nancy Kress likes Paolo Bacigalupi’s debut novel, The Windup Girl.
- Jeffrey Somers has sold the film rights to his Avery Cates books: The Electric Church, The Digital Plague, and The Eternal Prison.
- @The Art Department, Irene Gallo shares Jon Foster’s Boneshaker sketches. [Homer Simpson Gurgle Noise…]
- Tim Holman plays amateur (and awesome) statistician again with this Urban Fantasy Growth chart. [via GalleyCat]
- Ian Randal Strock is no slouch when it comes to chartage either. Check out his chart of Number of times Dr. Sam Beckett leaped into various states (and foreign countries) during Quantum Leap.
- George Lucas has been named as a 2009 California Hall of Fame inductee.
- Lists:
- @Wired: Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009.
- @Mental Floss: 7 Space Missions to Remember
- @MTV: Horror Franchises That Rob Zombie Should Tackle After Halloween.
- @Unreality: An Awesome Collection of Star Trek Bloopers. [via Look At This]
