SF Tidbits for 11/11/09
Interviews/Profiles
- Newsarama interviews Lev Grossman.
- Genreville TV interviews John Langan and Michael Cisco at KGB Fantastic Fiction (video).
- Margo Lanagan’s 2009 Printz Speech (video).
- SF Crowsnest interviews Ron Livingston.
- Butterfly Book Reviews interviews Lilith Saintcrow.
- The IAF has a Q&A with Cecil Castellucci.
- Jonathan Moeller interviews Teresa Howard.
- Into the Wardrobe interviews Sang Pak.
- John Scalzi profiles Scott Westerfeld.
News
Articles
- Rich Horton’s Summary: Abyss & Apex, 2009.
- John C. Wright on A single note of defiance.
- Eugie Foster on Niches, Typecasting, and Stereotypes.
- Edward M. Lerner on When enough is(n’t) enough.
- Ryan Harvey on Write-or-Die Spreads Fear Toxin from Your Desktop.
- Rachelle Gardner on How Book Royalties Work.
- Pimp My Novel on Fun Fact: The MTI Bump.
Lists
- OF Blog of the Fallen’s Best of 2009: The (Tentative) Longlist.
- The Week on Best books … chosen by Lev Grossman. (via Small Beer Press)
I checked that John Wright thing the other day, and I can’t explain entirely but it still sounds bogus. Was ’08 or ’09 or whatever year the “mindblowing” antho was compiled from, that devoid of female mindblowing authors? I suppose it could happen once in a while, but I still find it fishy. If he and his cohorts would come out and say it was an anomalous year, and imply that future collections would be likely to be gender-balanced, they wouldn’t sound so bogus to me. But they were (when I checked) just yapping about political correctness etc. Defiance, my @$$.
Still want to read the book, but will have the library get it (like I can afford books these days anyway).