SF Tidbits for 1/25/10

Interviews

• Mitch Wagner interviews Cory Doctorow (podcast).
• Agony Column interviews  Jasper Fforde. (podcast)
• The Literary Project interviews Lee Harris.
• Webcast: Google Book Settlement Workshop – 1/20/2010.
• The new Yorker profiles Neil Gaiman. [via BoingBoing]
• At Joseph Mallozzi’s blog, Kristine Kathryn Rusch answers reader questions.

News

• Another Google Book Search Settlement Deadline.
• Authors Guild offers phone seminars on Google Book Settlement.
• The winners of the 2010 Sofanaut Awards have been announced.

Articles

• Jo Walton on Gateway drugs: what books are good for introducing non-SF readers to SF?  (See also: our own Mind Meld on The Perfect SF/F/H Books to Give to People Who Don’t Read SF/F/H.)
• Paul Tremblay on My Deep Dark Confession and Zombies.
• Mike Allen On the bugaboo of editors publishing their own stories.
• Damien G. Walter on Are 70% royalties the future?
• Shiloh Walker on Sorry, Mr. Weiss. I’m not impressed. (via SFWA)
• Netflow Developments on Science Fiction as a tool for human survival.
• Rich Horton’s Summary: Reflection’s Edge, 2009.
• Ari Marmell on Poniards and Prestidigitation.
• James Enge on Sword and Solomon: The Beginning of Sword and Sorcery.
• Sue Lange on Ways to Trash Your Writing Career: Incorrect Definitions.
• Editorial Anonymous on How to Complain About Your Publisher in Public.
• Rachelle Gardner on Dang Greedy Agents… (Not).
• Elizabeth Bear on By the light of a burning deadline.
• Juliette Wade on How will they pronounce it?
• Janice Hardy on From the Mind of Evil.
• J F Quackenbush on The Poetics of Aggravated SF Assaults.
• Dan Abnett on Ooooh, you’ll never guess what that Horus did the other day…
• Graham McNeill on So you’re an author then…?
• Anne R. Allen on You May Be a Bestseller on Tralfamadore.
• Sherry Yao on China’s Science Fiction World.