SF Tidbits for 5/22/10

Interviews & Profiles

• The Functional Nerds interview Lou Anders.
• Gwenda Bond interviews Paolo

  Bacigalupi (Ship Breaker)

News

• You’re

  Invited to Neal Barrett Jr.’s Party!

• Director

  Robert Rodriguez is making a live-action version of Fire And Ice, the

  1983 collaboration between Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta.

• Author

  Norman Spinrad is recuperating from surgery.

Events

• The

  Wire as Social Science Fiction.

• The Vader Project: 100 Darth

  Vader Helmets re-imagined by today’s most notable artists.

Contests/Giveaways

• Giveaway @The BookBanter Blog: Blockade

  Billy by Stephen King.

• Contest @Book View Cafe: Shadow

  Conspiracy Extraordinary Steampunk Photo Contest.

Articles

• Lev Grossman on So

  Do You Write Fantasy or Literary Fiction or Oh God What Does That Even Mean?

• Geek Twins on How

  to Watch Star Trek: The Original Series and Not Laugh.

• Black Gate‘s John O’Neill offers A

  Reader’s Guide to Sword & Sorcery Magazines.

• Shaun Duke on Science

  Fiction Criticism: A Necessary “Evil”?.

• Kevin Maher on Kevin

  Geeks Out: A look back.

• Lynn Flewelling on The

  Complete Nobody’s Guide to Query Letters. [via Ellen Kushner]

• Phyllis Irene Radford on Where

  do Ideas Come From?

• @Dark Fiction Review: Negative

  Book Reviews Q&A Session.

• RevolutionSF asks Whatever Happened To

  Bubo, The Golden Owl?

• SCI FI Wire on Harrison Ford

  FINALLY speaks out about Star Wars.

More Fun

Stuff

• Hero Complex shares video of Harrison

  Ford and Mark Hamill on the Today show in 1980.

• SCI FI Wire lists 12 things we

  know about Spielberg’s Terra Nova TV series.

• Geeks of Doome list 30

  Most Memorable Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Quotes.

• Topless Robot lists 13

  Classic Doctor Who Monsters and Villains Due a Comeback

• Booklist lists Top

  10 SF/Fantasy: 2010. [via Locus

  Online]

• File under weird: Red Shirt

  on the Half Shell.