SF Tidbits for 4/7/10

Interviews/Profiles

• 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:

  The

  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 James

  Nicoll]

• @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!