SF Tidbits for 12/31/09
Interviews/Profiles
- Innsmouth Free Press interviews John Coulthart.
- The Agony Column interviews Jeremy Lassen (podcast).
- The Dragon Page interviews Lou Anders (podcast).
News
- The 2010 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest.
- The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities.
- John Scalzi’s The God Engines is now available. Read the first chapter now.
Articles
- Paul Collins on In 2010, We Will Live on the Moon.
- Brainz on The 10 Greatest Fantasy Series Of All Time.
- Publishing Perspectives on Best of ’09: Analysing the Global Ranking of Publishers.
- Rich Horton’s Summary: Subterranean, 2009.
- Dan Read on Janet Fox and Marcelo Martinez: A Tribute.
- The World SF News Blog on Looking Back on 2009.
- Suvudu on Top 10 Fantasy/Sci-Fi Books of 2009.
- Janet Reid on The Fifteen Things You Need to Know B’twixt “The End” and “Send”.
- 680+ examples of John Berkey art.
- Lawrence Person on As Maureen Dowd Sees Science Fiction.
- Orson Scott Card on Sarah Palin’s Book.
OSC makes at least one very good point about Sarah Palin’s book – most notably: if you haven’t read it you can’t review it.
OSC has read it but doesn’t review it (at least very much). Instead he refers to a NYT review of GOING ROGUE, which is interesting, but also very troubling – it intellectualizes the idea of lying in an autobiography – arguing that it is standard and therefore of no great importance.
OSC is also upset that the “liberal media” savaged Sarah Palin. And that is true. Jon Stewart made tons of fun out of her.
OSC says: “She has done nothing to warrant this treatment.”
All I can conclude from this OSC has never heard Palin speak.