SF Tidbits for 4/7/10
- Fatally Yours interviews Jeremy C. Shipp.
- Video from opening and closing ceremonies at Norwescon 33 with Cory Doctorow.
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Susan Beth Pfeffer.
- Fantasy Literature’s Fantasy Book Reviews interviews (!) Jim
Butcher
. - Mike Resnick remembers Isaac
Asimov
.
News
- 2009
David Gemmell Awards shortlist
. - Catherynne
Valente has accepted the position of Fiction Editor of Apex
Magazine
. - Wheatland Press – Inventory Reduction Sale!
- The April 2010 issue of
Kaleidotrope (#8) is now available
. - Details on AE Micro – The Microfiction Magazine and Contest.
- Warner Bros. Decides ‘All You Need is Kill’.
- Controversial chief of china’s leading sci-fi magazine suspended.
- Iain M. Banks Has Finished His New Culture Novel, Surface Detail.
- Orbit is offering cool ,new wallpapers featuring cover art for two new titles:
Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee (cover art by Sam Weber ) and The
Orphaned Worlds by Michael Cobley (cover art by Steve Stone).
- Speaking of cover art, Pyr books has posted John Picacio‘s gorgeous new
cover for Mark Chadbourn’s The
Queen of Sinister.
Articles
- Small Beer Press on Ebook price experiment.
- C. Hope Clark on Grants for Writers-As Diverse As You Are.
- World SF News Blog on Controversial chief of china’s leading sci-fi magazine suspended.
- Deborah J. Ross on Where Ideas Come From: Dream A Little Dream.
- Amy Sterling Casil on The Sessile Eye of the Isopod: Getting Ideas.
- Juliette Wade on Should I write to a market?
- Gini Koch on How I Write.
- Mark Charan Newton on Doorstop Novel.
- Behind the Scenes at Tor–Three Decades in the Making!
- Sue Lange on Le
Guin Walking Away from the Rules
. - @Horror Reanimated: David
Moody on The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
. - @Innsmouth Press: Silvia
Moreno-Garcia on C.L. Moore: Pioneer of Weird Fiction
. - Silvia Moreno-Garcia on When Science Fiction
Isn’t
Sciency Enough
. - Warren Ellis on space
travel
. [via JamesNicoll
] - @Boing Boing: Bruce
Sterling’s State-of-the-Spime address
. - Techland lists The Top 10
Coolest Sci-Fi Cars
. - ScIf Wire lists 11 sci-fi
spoofs of that Trololo guy
. - Mental Floss lists 10
Things You Should Know About J.R.R. Tolkien
. - @Something Awful: Awful
Sci-Fi Books!