SF Tidbits for 5/17/10

Interviews/Profiles

• The SF Site interviews Guy Gavriel Kay.
• Beyond Victoriana interviews Karin

  Lowachee.

• Joseph Mallozzi’s readers interview SGU‘s Alaina

  Huffman

News

• SFWA

  incoming officers. 

• Nominations are now open for the Fifth Annual Parsec Awards, celebrating the best in SF/F podcasting!
• Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy: 2010.
• Million Writers Award top ten stories of 2009.
• The latest Notes from Coode Street podcast, with Jonathan

  Strahan and Graham Sleight, has been posted. This is a fantastic

  podcast

  series. Give a listen!

• NeoKitsch produces

  Etherwaves, a Science Fiction Music Album.

• Joseph

  Mallozzi’s Book of the Month Club Selection for July is House of

  Suns by Alastair Reynolds.

Articles

• Nnedi Okorafor on The

  Writing of Who Fears Death.

• Pen on Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible (video).
• Odyssey Workshop on When to Give Up on a Story.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts on A Question of Canon-Building.
• Marshall Payne on That elusive pronoun: It!
• Ari Marmell on Genre-lized Anxiety.
• Nancy Jane Moore on Schenectady Is Where You Find It, or Where I Get My Ideas.
• Sarah Zettel on Don’t Stop the Writing.
• Sherwood Smith on Gender and Friendship.
• Academicalism on The copyfight, science fiction, and social media.
• Juliette Wade on Why Worry about Parallelism?
• @Time: James Poniewozik on Lost

  and Heroes: In Defense of Arrogance. [via Cultural

  Gutter]

• @Babel Clash: Adrian Tchaikovsky on Putting

  the punk into the steam.

• David D. Levine on Nebula Weekend,

  days

  2-3.

• IGN lists Top

  6

  Villains That Would Be Great in Iron Man 3.

• Good, these Star

  Wars cookies look, mmm?

• …but not as good as Ian Sales’ list of The 10 Best Science Fiction Books… Ever.