SF Tidbits for 5/28/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Sue

  Granquist interviews Charlaine

  Harris.

• T.J. McIntyre interviews Keffy

  R.M. Kehrli.

• IGN interviews Mark

  Hamill. [via Topless

  Robot]

• Dark horse interviews Patton

  Oswalt (Serenity: Float Out). [via Whedonesque]

News

• 2010

  Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists.

• Bacigalupi

  Wins 2010 Compton Crook Award.

• IDW to Publish

  Dungeons & Dragons Comic Series.

• Disney

  joins Marvel in copyright fight with Kirby family.

Articles

• Stephanie

  Bodeen on Everything

  I Need to Know I Learned From Lost.

• Brit Mandelo on Queering

  SFF: The Lambda Awards, Present and Past.

• Phyllis Irene

  Radford on So

  You Think You Want to Commit Novel: the idea.

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on Freelancer’s

  Survival Guide: Schedules And How To Keep Them.

• Richard

  Dansky on Seven

  Things You Should Always Ask A Writer.

• Janice Hardy on Author,

  We Have a Problem.

• Alastair Reynolds On

  plotting and optimism.

• Nicola Morgan on Pace

  – It’s Not a Race.

• Jason Sanford on A

  personal rejection letter, sent to the literary journal which took 6

  years to reject my story.

• Futurismic asks Has

  the television serial run out of creative lebensraum?

• Chris Roberson on Do

  Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dust to Dust #1.

• Tor.com on The

  Lambda Awards, Present and Past.

• Scott D. Parker looks back at The

  Empire Strikes Back soundtrack.

• Galaxy Express on The

  Adjustment Bureau: Hollywood’s Next Science Fiction Romance Film.

  [Looks at JP]

• Chris Beckett on SF

  and religion.

Other Fun Stuff

• Free

  wallpapers from Artist Hugo Nominee John Picacio.

• @SCI FI Wire: 5

  famous

  sci-fi movie quotes as infographics.

• A Cartoon

  Guide to LARPing.

• SCI FI Wire lists 16

  sci-fi soldiers we should all salute on Memorial Day.

• Film School Rejects list 5

  Reasons Why Jonah Hex Might Be Awesome.

• Geekend lists 11

  classic scenes from sci-fi movies.

• ScifiSquad lists The

  Top

  Ten Sci-Fi Weapons.

• Recreating

  the Doctor Who theme using a

  Guitar and Effects Pedals and Tesla

  coils.