SF Tidbits for 7/22/10

Interviews/Profiles

• The Wall

  Street Journal interviews Marjorie

  M. Liu.

• Cult Pop interviews John Scalzi, Cherie Priest, Tobias

  Buckell (video).

• The Agony Column interviews Alan

  Cheuse and Peter S. Beagle (podcast).

• Dead Robots Society

  interviews Gabrielle

  Harbowy (podcast).

• Video: Wil

  Wheaton and Colin Ferguson on the set of Eureka.

• SciFiNow interviews Jim Butcher.

News

• 2009

  Prometheus Award winners.

• China’s

  2009 Sky Award Winners Announced.

• Philip K Dick Festival.
• Lawsuit

  Dropped; Claimed That Copyright-Filtering Violates Copyright.

• Chinese Science Fiction

  Newsletter: July 2010.

• (Australian) Open

  short story markets.

• The Gulliver

  Travel Research Grant.

Articles

• Paul S. Kemp

  on Why I Keep

  Writing.

• Jeff VanderMeer on Shared

  Worlds, Day Two.

• K. Tempest Bradford on Are

  Dreams Really As Weird As All That?

• Angela Slatter on Pondering

  Author Platform.

• Sir Tessa on Maturity

  and the Artist.

• Rochita Loenen-Ruiz on Finding

  Our Stories.

• John R. Fultz On

  Writing Fantasy: A Timeless Style.

• Shawn Speakman on The

  Creation of a Cover.

• Mike Brotherton on More Online Astronomy

  Resources for Writers.

• Erin Healy on Who

  Is Your Reader? Part 1: “How Do I Love Thee?”

• Janice Hardy

  on Re-Write

  Wednesday: To the Dump, To the Dump, to the Dump, Dump, Dump…

• Adam Roberts on Morlocks. [via

  Angry

  Robot Books]

• Rich Horton reviews Four

  New Australian Anthologies

• The Millions on A

  Report on the Vonnegut Effect.

• Mark Edlitz on Star

  Wars Fans and Sex Appeal.

• Gabriel McKee rounds up his 10-part

  Doctor Who post series for Religion Dispatches.

More Fun Stuff

• The

  Way of Kings wallpapers from Michael Whelan.

• Thor

  and Captain America Poster Art.

• Good picks on LikeMe’s list of 10

  Under-Appreciated Sci-Fi Movies. [via Neatorama]

• Neatorama lists 10

  Things You Didn’t Know About Ghostbusters.

• Look at This offers up a

  cool meta-list of comic lists.

• Fantasy Magazine lists Ten

  Cheesetastic Fantasy Flicks for Summer

• GalleyCat lists The

  Best Publisher Pages on Facebook