SF Tidbits for 5/19/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Radio New

  Zealand interviews Margo

  Lanagan.

• The Dragon Page interviews Mike

  Resnick (podcast).

• Morning Media Menu interviews Cory

  Doctorow (podcast).

• Book Expo America interviews Cory

  Doctorow (podcast).

• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Greg

  van Eekhout.

• Marshall Payne interviews Nancy

  Kress.

News

• Sad news: A

  Fond Farewell to Ripley, the Borderlands Cat.

• This week at UC Irvine, Gregory Benford, James Blaylock, Jeff Hicks, Rob

  Latham, and Tim Powers will Orange

  County’s influence on Philip K. Dick.

• CBS to

  air Sitcom Bleep My Dad Says which will feature William Shatner reading

  from a Twitter account.

Articles

• Deborah

  J. Ross on The

  Magic Notebook.

• Juliette Wade on Psychic

  links and channels of communication.

• Adele Harrison on Bringing

  Magic into the Present.

• Nathan Bransford on Every

  Writer Gets Rejected.

• Pimp My Novel on Some

  Things I Might Know About Query Letters.

• Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku On

  the Road with Sci Fi Science.

• Tristan Stewart-Robertson says Making

  time for sci-fi in class can open a whole new dimension.

• The Website of Unknowing asks: Is

  there such a thing as too many books?? [via Divers

  and Sundry]

• Cory Doctorow on Saying

  information wants to be free does more harm than good.

• Robert J. Sawyer on the cancellation of Flashforward.

Other Fun Stuff

• Chris Roberson shares More

  iZombie fan art.

• SciFiNow lists Five

  sci-fi music covers that amaze.

• AbeBooks lists 20

  Villainous Animals in Fiction. [via Bill

  Crider’s Pop Culture Magazine]

• Topless Robot lists 10

  Futuristic Technologies We Wish Existed Right Now.

• SCI FI Wire lists 13 sci-fi

  movie and TV deaths that made us go “WTF?” and 5 reasons why

  we’re stoked Keanu’s back in sci-fi.

• Boba

  Fett: He’s always watching us, you just never see him.

• The Dune art

  project. [via Super

  Punch]