SF Tidbits for 8/19/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Locus

  interviews N.K.

  Jemisin.

• The Agony Column interviews David

  Corbett and Barry Eisler (podcast).

• Suvudu chat transcript

  with Terry

  Brooks.

• Down Under Wonderings interviews Angela

  Slatter.

News

• 2012

  World Fantasy Convention Site.

• Michael Cobley’s got a shiny new

  website. [via Orbit

  Books]

• Harlan

  Ellison Praises Adam-Troy Castro.

Articles

• Jim C. Hines

  on Judging

  the Past Through the Lens of the Present.

• SFWA on 5

  Resources for Tracking Your To-do Lists.

• Janice Hardy on Re-Write

  Wednesday Golden Oldie: Poking Dead Scenes With A Stick.

• John Scalzi on The Dollar

  Value of Nerd Love.

• Will Ellwood says There

  is an untapped audience for SF magazines.

• John Marr on How

  Edgar Rice Burroughs became one of the twentieth century’s biggest scifi

  authors.

• Shaun Duke on Why

  Science Fiction is Important to the Third World (Part One).

• Jo Walton reviews Robert

  A. Heinlein’s Rocket Ship Galileo.

• Scott Cupp on ArmadilloCon: More

  Guests Than You Can Swing an Armadillo At..

• Philip Athans on The

  Fantasy Author’s Exercises Iii: A One-Page Synopsis.

• Bloginhood lists Top 10

  Pirates of SF.

• Geek Speak lists 8

  Odd Versions of the Doctor Who Theme. [via Scott A. Cupp]

More Fun Stuff

• Matt Ruff blew my mind with this off-putting fact: Former Disney moppet Kim

  Richards, best known for her role in the original Escape to Witch Mountain, is

  Paris Hilton’s aunt.

• Blastr shares 5 horrific new

  pics from AMC’s zombie-licious The Walking Dead.

• Artist

  Imagines an Incredible Star Wars Theme Park. [via Look

  At This…]

• Cool art: “Gates To

  Elysium” by Christian Hecker.