SF Tidbits for 4/16/10

• BookBanter interviews Peter Straub.
• I Should Be Writing interviews Blake Charlton (podcast).
• Writers of the Horrific and Surreal interviews Angel McCoy.
• The Nebula Awards interviews Saladin Ahmed.
• Jeremy L.C. Jones interviews Michael Curtis.
• Teresa Jusino interviews Paul Cornell.
• News Star interviews Nnedi Okorafor.
• Ariel Emerald interviews Janice Hardy.
• Mad Hatter interviews Neal

  Asher.

• Hub Magazine interviews Joe R. Lansdale (Part 3).

News

• Shirley Jackson Awards 2009 nominees.
• Electric Velocipede 20 Table of Contents.
• The reading period for the speculative fiction zine Marginal Boundaries is now open.
• Random Consolidates Ballantine and Bantam Dell.
• Roger

  Ebert calls Kick-Ass “morally reprehensible”. [via SCI FI

  Wire]

• 8-Bit Dr.

  Horrible (Act 2) is now available. [via Whedonesque]

Articles

• Monica Valentinelli on An Overview of Writing for Print vs. the Web.
• Waggish on Thomas M. Disch Appendix.
• Eric M. Van on The Flavors of Science in SF: A Taxonomy.
• Nancy Jane Moore on Brave New (Writing) World: Too Big to Change?
• Milena Popova on Why Content Is a Public Good.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Online Networking (Networking Part Seven).
• S.C. Butler on Heroines Who Don’t Kick Ass.
• Juliette Wade on Getting Ideas is a Skill.
• Janice Hardy on Re-Write Wednesday: Tab A Into Slot B.
• John Scalzi on Questions for Orbit, Re: Its New Digital Short Fiction Program.
• Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews on A glimpse of the Romanian speculative fiction market.
• Nicola Morgan on How Long is a Book?
• Pimp My Novel on Exceptions, Rules, Et Cetera.
• Lynn Flewelling on How Not

  to Write a Series.

• Concatenation on Unseen Mainland European SF Classics.
• Eric M. Van on The

  Flavors of Science in SF: A Taxonomy. [via Velcro

  City Tourist Board]

• Stephen

  King Fans: Prepare To Be Blown Away.

• SQT asks: Can

  Science Fiction be Fused With Anything… and Still be Considered Sci-fi?

• SciFi Wire lists 16

  sci-fi movie controversies.

• Geekosystem lists The

  10 Worst Science Fiction Governments.

• Fandomania lists The

  Top 10 Best Genre TV, Movie, & Stage Musicals. [via Whedonesque]

• Star

  Wars figures as samurai warriors