SF Tidbits for 1/20/10
Interviews/Profiles
- The New Yorker interviews Neil Gaiman.
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Mark Teppo.
- At Length interviews Jeff VanderMeer and Murder by Death.
- S.J. Chambers interviews Ed “Philly Poe Guy” Pettit.
- BSC Review interviews Charlie Huston (video).
- Small Beer Press interviews Daniel Rabuzzi.
- Sarah A. Hoyt on Robert A. Heinlein.
News
- 2010 RUSA Award Winners include Lamentation by Ken Scholes (fantasy), The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (sf) and Last Days by Brian Evenson (horror).
- SFWA Hosting Online Panel Discussion on Google Book Settlement.
- Angry Robot Books signs Gary McMahon.
- Book View Cafe to Partner with Smashwords.
- Realms of Fantasy: One Website Volunteer Needed.
Articles
- Jezebel on Magic Under Glass: The White-Washing Of Young Adult Fiction Continues.
- Ellen Datlow on Another whitewash of a YA novel character’s color.
- Tansy Rayner Roberts on Cover Matters.
- Reading in Color on An Open Letter to Bloomsbury Kids USA. Other Publishing Houses Take Note. (via Tansy Rayner Roberts)
- Janet Chui on Even dragons can be whitewashed.
- Sean Wallace on The Dragon and the Stars anthology Cover and Poul Anderson’s Flandry and T&A.
- N.K. Jemisin on Why I Think RaceFail Was The Bestest Thing Evar for SFF.
- Sheila Finch on The Magi’s Starship.
- P.N. Elrod on Why I hate PublishAmerica — vomit alert. RANT alert.
- Angela Slatter on Saturday is Aurealis Day.
- Amy Sterling Casil on Rules For Children’s Writing in 1954.
- Janet Reid on What you need before you query.
- Rachelle Gardner on Word of Mouth – Who Knew?
- Jason Sanford on A flash response to a flash fiction rant.
- Niki Bruce on Blending East with West.
- Juliet E. McKenna on Blood in the Water? Where does it come from?
- Paul S. Kemp on Why I write tie-in.
- Cat Rambo on The Network Around Us.
- Jim C. Hines on In Defense of Criticism.
- Shawn Speakman on The Lesson I Learned From George R. R. Martin.
- Erin Evans on Outlining for Non-Outliners: An Outline.
- Juliette Wade on The Power of Culture.
- The Book Publicity Blog on Aging publicity practices to jettison for the new decade.
- Janice Hardy on The Back (Story) of Our Lives.
- Eric Rosenfield on Fan Service.
- Dan Abnett on Somebody else’s blog, somebody else’s universe…
- Pimp My Novel on A Word on the MaFiA.
- Chrispher Paul Carey on The Expresso Book Machine.
- Karen L. Newman on Why Horror Can’t Often Compete with Science Fiction and Fantasy in Multi-Genre Magazines.
- Guardian Book Blog In praise of trilogies.
- Biology in Science Fiction looks at (Bio)Chemistry in the Movies.
- Bruce Campbell plans My Name Is Bruce sequel.
- Nick Nadel lists Five Dos and Don’ts for Rebooting Spider-Man.
- Paul Levinson on Countdown to Lost Finale Season.
- Humor: Final Season Of Lost Promises To Make Fans More Annoying Than Ever.
- Fox is developing a U.S. version of Torchwood.
- Paul Abbamondi’s countdown of The Top Hundred Speculative Fiction Magazines Covers.continues…[via Jim Steel]
- SciFi Now lists 10 of the best sci-fi sidekicks.
- Publishers Weekl