SF Tidbits for 6/18/10

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.