SF Tidbits for 7/19/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Suvudu has

  a video of Holly

  Black.

• Suvudu On Air interviews Scott

  Sigler (podcast).

• Jonathan Strahan chats with Gary

  K. Wolfe.

News

• Introducing Wizard’s Tower Press.
• Stephen Hawking says ““Time

  Travel to the Future is Possible“.

Articles

• BBC on Traditional

  books ‘may not survive electronic age’.

• Susanna Daniel on What Took You So Long?
• Ranker

  on Top

  10 Comic Book Gods Worth Worshipping.

• Damien G. Walter on Bizarro

  fiction: it’s terribly good.

• Genevieve Valentine on Blogging

  from Launchpad Workshop: Science!

• Brit Mandelo on Queering

  SFF: At Readercon 21.

• Andrew Liptak on ReaderCon Panel

  Recap: “The

  New And Improved Future of Magazines”, “Folklore

  and its Discontents”, “Everybody

  Loves Dirigibles–Science For Tomorrow’s Fiction”.

• Laura

  Anne Gilman on A

  One-Week Odyssey, and What it Takes.

• Sherwood Smith on Ten

  Things I Don’t Want to Read About.

• Stroppy Author on How

  to read a publishing contract (17).

• Juliette Wade on That

  awesome line you just wrote…

• Janice Hardy on Being

  Trendy.

• JF Quackenbush on The

  Magician, The Priest, The Conjurer & The Lawyer: Law, Mysticism,

  Magic, and the Occult.

• Tansy

  Rayner Roberts On

  Court Fantasy.

• Gustavo Bondoni on Hello

  Again From Argentina – World Domination and Mind Expansion.

• Angela Slatter on Guest

  Blogging – or How Did I Get Here??

• From MetaFilter: Sci-Fi

  novels on unusual planets.

• The Book Smugglers on Young

  Adult Appreciation Month: An Introduction.

• Sherwood Smith on Ten

  Things I Don’t Want to Read About.

• Bloginhood lists The Top 5

  Drinks of SF.

• SciFi Blog lists Greatest

  Shatner Moments.

More Fun Stuff

• Blastr lists 10 wild practical

  jokes played by sci-fi movie and TV stars.

• Coolvibe’s Sci-fi

  wallpaper of the week is based on Warhammer: 40,000 by Games

  Workshop.

• Worth listening to: Matthew Sanborn Smith’s Beware the Hairy Mango Episode

  38 “Passions

  in Orbit, a Stirring in the Pants“.