SF Tidbits for 6/18/10

Posted on June 18, 2010 by John DeNardo in Tidbits // 2 Comments

Interviews & Profiles

NY Press talks with Neil Gaiman, Walter Mosley, Joe Hill. [via Ellen Datlow]
If You’re Just Joining Us interviews Amelia Beamer (podcast).
Angela Slatter interviews Sean Williams.
John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Nnedi Okorafor.
HellNotes interviews Jason Sizemore.
@io9: Concept Artists share their secrets.
Agony Column Podcast features Seanan McGuire reading at SF in SF on June 12, 2010.
Book Chick City features Angie Fox.
This week on The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome John Ottinger III from
Grasping for the Wind.

News

RIP Everett F. Bleiler, 1920-2010. [via Lawrence Person]
Margaret Atwood among Edinburgh book fest headliners.
The Terry Pratchett Prize.
EVENT: As part of the Fantastic Fiction free reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Catherynne M. Valente & M.K. Hobson Wednesday July 21st, 7pm at at KGB Bar in NYC. Plus: Here are photos from this month’s reading with Jack Ketchum and Scott Edelman.
The Fringe Report is aiming to to
get Fringe‘s Jasika Nicole (Astrid) on Glee with this

petition.

Articles

Heather Massey on Romance and Science Fiction, Sittin’ in a Tree…
Scott A. Cupp on Forgotten Book: Blind Voices by Tom Reamy.
Sean Grattan on Flash Gordon: In Space No One Wears Pants.
Jason Sanford on Why science fiction predictions hold back the genre.
Danielle Trussoni asks What is Sci-Fi anyway?
Andrew Liptak on Military Science Fiction is Soldier Science Fiction.
Margaret L. Carter on Aliens Within Us.
Tansy Rayner Roberts on More of 1940’s Wonder Woman and You Should Read This! Right Now. I’ll wait
Jack Calvert on ‘Killdozer!’ a Crackpot Cult Classic based on a Theodore Sturgeon Story.
Suvudu on 25 Years of Spectra: Red Mars (1993) by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Carol Pinchefsky lists Top 10 Reasons Why Uplifted Animals Don’t Make Good Pets.
Ari Marmell on The Fantasy Continuum.
Philip Athans on Social Media and Us.
Nancy Jane Moore on Brave New (Writing) World: Old-Fashioned Hogwash.
Phyllis Irene Radford on So You Want To Commit Novel: Part 3b More Plot.
Alison Janssen on Video Games Are Art and Genre Fiction Is Literature.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Risks Part Two.
Juliette Wade on Handling Caste Systems.
Janice Hardy on Did You Hear That?
Nathan Bransford on Get More Done: Easy Tools for Greater Efficiency.
Pimp My Novel on Titles and Covers and Sales, Oh My.
Which genre films made BlackBook’s list of 15 Badass Films Set In New York City?
SCI FI Wire on Best 3-D film EVER coming soon: Plan 9 from Outer Space re-release.
SciFi Wire lists 22 ordinary things that look like the Starship Enterprise, 7 superhero secrets of Syfy’s new Phantom miniseries, and 11 photos from the set of The Hobbit show new Shire being built.

More Fun Stuff

Read an excerpt from Yahtzee Croshaw’s Mogworld, a a comedic fantasy novel with a twist in which Jim, who, sixty years after dying in a magic-school mishap, is wrenched back to life by a renegade necromancer.
Cool Art @Coolvibe: “Android Artist” by Adrian Michael Mulryan.
Cool Art @ItsArtMag: the German cover art for “Queen of Candasce and Pirate Sun by Karl Schroeder.
Helen
Thomas Totally Looks Like Yubaba from Spirited Away.