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.