SF Tidbits for 1/22/10
Interviews/Profiles
- Fast Forward interviews Scott Edelman (video|audio).
- Fantasy Magazine interviews Willow Fagan.
- Topzine interviews Jay Lake (Czech language).
- Dallas News profiles Charlie Huston.
- @Deatils: Caprica‘s Alessandra Torresani.
- From 11/09: Joe R. Lansdale on Edgard Allan Poe. [via Sanford Allen]
News
- Steampunk Tales: Issue 5 gets released.
- Jeff Somers’ Avery Cates novels have been picked up by Sony Pictures. (See SF Signal reviews of The Electric Church and The Digital Plague).
Articles
- Rich Horton’s Summary: Shiny, 2009.
- Shweta Narayan on About Clarion applications.
- Susan Hill on No, amateurs are not ‘Just as good as…’
- Gord Sellar on Attention Bloomsbury: The World Is (Mostly) Not White.
- Publisher’s Weekly on Bloomsbury to Rejacket ‘Magic Under Glass’. (via Ellen Datlow)
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Cover Controversy.
- Linkspam on Coverfail: Linkspam #1. (via Delux Vixens)
- Monica Valentinelli on Why Do Some Horror Authors Write about Rape, Incest and Abuse?
- Author 2 Author on Shedding Some Light on Foreign Rights. (via Matt Staggs)
- Matt Staggs on Book tours, traditional and otherwise: are they for you?
- Alisa Krasnostein on You know what’s fun to read in the debate on gender disparity in SF?
- Jay Lake on The larval stages of the common American speculative fiction writer.
- Sean Wallace on Sexism and Reviews and Anthologies.
- SFWA’s Google Settlement Online Panel.
- Nancy Jane Moore on Brave New (Writing) World: The Rules Are Changing.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch on American Idol and The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Surviving Someone Else’s Jealousy.
- Chuck Sambuchino on Would You Pay More For An Agent?
- Janice Hardy on First and A Lot More Than Ten.
- Cherie Priest on Control.
- Dan Abnett on Hi, I’m Dan, and I’ll be your God-Emperor of Mankind.
- Nicola Morgan on The End is Nigh.
- Jon Gibbs on Is Your “But” Too Big?
- Pimp My Novel on The 6… Er, 500 Million Dollar Man.
- Hal Duncan on Oh Dear Dog.
- Nadia Bulkin on People of the Book.
- Jason Henninger on Literary and Speculative: A Rant.
- The Intern on Why you really don’t want to get published (part 2).
- John Scalzi’s Thoughts on the Future of 3D Movies.
- Ellen Datlow’s photos from the January 20 KGB reading featuring David Anthony Durham and Lev Grossman.
- J.J. Abrams sets a plot arc and end-date for Fringe. [via SciFi Scanner]
- SciFi Squad on The Top Ten Sci-Fi Experiments Gone Wrong.
- SciFi Wire on 10 sci-fi TV shows we wish would get prequels like Caprica.
- Classic photo: Taking a break during the filming of Metropolis.
- This recording is counting down The 100 Greatest SFF Novels of All Time