SF Tidbits for 1/26/10
Interviews/Profiles
- The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast interviews Marjorie M. Liu.
- The Agony Column interviews Jasper Fforde (podcast).
- The Big Adios interviews Paul G. Tremblay.
- The World SF News Blog interviews Wu Yan.
- The Force interviews Paul S. Kemp.
- David Steffen interviews Orson Scott Card.
- Bibliophile Stalker interviews Angela Slatter.
- Q&A: How Charlie Huston Writes.
- Frederik Pohl on Isaac Asimov.
News
- John Scalzi is running for President of SFWA, with a ticket that includes Mary Robinette Kowal, Bob Howe, Amy Sterling-Casil, and Sean Williams.
- Weird Tales Changes: Ann VanderMeer Promoted, Kowal & Guran Join.
- Newly-discovered John Wyndham novel: Plan For Chaos.
- From Black Library: Prospero Burns update.
- New Flash Fiction site: Pow Fast Flash Fiction.
Articles
- Lavie Tidhar on Confessions of a Book Junkie #19: Collecting Steampunk.
- Fiction Circus on Sign Ursula Le Guin’s Petition Against the Google Book Settlement.
- Cheryl Morgan on Hugo Voting on the Cheap.
- Jeremy L.C. Jones on ‘As Freshly as a Child with an Adult’s Mind’: Booklife in the Classroom.
- Vera Nazarian on Introduction to Wonder.
- Lilith Saintcrow on Editors Are Not Enemies.
- Rachel Swirsky on Genres of Fiction, and Why They Aren’t Discrete Entities.
- Shawn Speakman on Courage For Hopeful Writers.
- The Millions on Confessions of a Book Pirate.
- Michele Ang on Story Mapping: How I do It.
- Jeff Cohen on Are Author Web Sites Obsolete?
- Justine Larbalestier on Unsung YA.
- Rachelle Gardner on We DO Publish Debut Authors.
- Janice Hardy on Why, Oh Why.
- Erin M. Evans on Being a Hack: Writing a Shared-World Novel.
- Dan Abnett on My own private universe.
- Nicola Morgan on Points of View.
- Pimp My Novel on A Word on Awards.
- The New York Times says: With Kindle, the Best Sellers Don’t Need to Sell.
- Athena Andreadis on SF Goes MacDonald’s: Less Taste, More Gristle and Lab Rat Cinema: Monetizing the Reptile Brain.
- Futurismic on Science fiction as a civilization survival tool.
- io9 lists 5 Reasons Caprica Is The Season’s Most Promising New SF Series.
- SciFi Scanner lists The 5 Real Reasons Why Video Game Movies Usually Stink.
- Mur Lafferty: Dear Avatar: Coraline is still better.
- There Is No Genre on Anime, Manga, and the Question of Multi-Culturalism.