SF Tidbits for 3/31/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Suvudu interviews C.L. Anderson.
• Jeff VanderMeer interviews S.J. Chambers.
• Philip Pullman on censorship and free speech
• Backroom Comics interviews Chris Roberson, who reveals he’s scripting a comic prequel to Philip k. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.  Sweet!

News

• The finalists for The 2010 Rhysling Awards has been announced.
• Birmingham bog which inspired Tolkien to be restored.
• Creature! Thirty Years of Monsters! announced.
• Fantastic Books: Acquisition: Michael Moorcock.
• Locus Wants Interns!
• Independence Day Sequel is possible.

Articles

• M.G. Ellington on Inertia and the Practicing Writer.
• Penny C. Sansavieri on Write that book, but don’t take anything for granted. (via Diana Gill)
• Nick Mamatas on The anarchy of translation.
• Deborah J. Ross on The Writing Life: Where Were You?
• Justine Larbalestier on Teenagers & Reading.
• Alma Alexander on The Eternal Questions 1: Who, What, Why.
• Glenda Larke on Playing God.
• Celine Kiernan on No MTV moments, please.
• Jason Sanford on Too bad you can’t cash good karma.
• Nathan Bransford on All About Co-Op.