SF Tidbits for 5/1/10
Interviews & Profiles
- Scalzi’s Big Idea: Mira Grant (author of Feed, which has an official website).
- Apex interviews Lucien Soulban.
- Dark Wolf interviews artists Tuomas Korpi.
News
- The 2009 Shirley Jackson Awards nominees have been announced.
- David Langford’s Ansible 274 for May 2010 has been posted.
- PassionFruit Games Hosts Online Party to Celebrate Launch of Romance Casual Game Based on Marjorie M. Liu’s Tiger Eye Novel.
- Crossovers 1 Now Available.
- Ron Howard to direct Dark Tower movie trilogy.
Articles
- NYTimes on Authors Unbound Online: “In this time of Twitter feeds and self-designed Snapfish albums and personal YouTube channels, it’s hard to remember the stigma that once attached to self-publishing.”
- Suvudu on Science Fiction Versus Fantasy.
- Fantasy Magazine on The Year’s Best SF and Fantasy, 2010 Recommended Reading, Part 4.
- Geekend on Best and worst comic book movies.
- Pati Nagle on Where Ideas Come From.
- Charlie Stross on The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash.
More Fun Stuff
- Topless Robot lists 10 Incredibly Badass Batman Comic Moments.
- retroCRUSH lists The 20 Best Zombie Movies Of All Time.
- Classic SciFi lists Must-See SF Films from the 50’s. [via Divers and Sundry]
- 3 words: Electric Steampunk Motorbike.
