SF Tidbits for 8/24/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Fantasy

  Book Critic interviews Susannah

  Applebaum.

• Sam Weller interviews Ray

  Bradbury (video).

• Matt Staggs interviews Johannes

  Cabal.

• Mur Lafferty interviews Tracy

  Hickman & Scott Sigler.

• Cult Pop interviews Bob Fingerman.
• Book Chick City: Where Stories Are Made with Kate

  Ellis.

• The New Gay interviews Hal Duncan. [via Locus Online]
• Graham Sleight profiles the awesome Theodore

  Sturgeon.

• SFFaudio interviews Julie

  Davis (podcast).

• Frederik Pohl on Gene

  Roddenberry.

News

• Charity

  Auction for The Way of Kings.

• Angry

  Robot TV launches!

• Brandon Sanderson has

  finsihed writing Towers of Midnight, book 13 in The

  Wheel of Time series.

• Darren

  Nash Named Digital Publisher for Gollancz.

• Liz

  Gorinsky Promoted to Editor.

Events

• Guillermo del Toro will be

  signing his new novel The Fall at the Forbidden Planet

  Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on Wednesday 6th October 6

  – 7pm.

Articles

• Aliette De

  Bodard on Thought

  Experiments: The View from the Other Side: Science Fiction and

  Non-Western/Non-Anglophone Countries.

• Jeff VanderMeer on Caitlin

  R. Kiernan’s The Ammonite Violin & Others.

• Marly

  Youmans on Writing

  & Her Daughter.

• Gary Westfahl on Notes

  from a Mixed Marriage, Or, The Lady and the Monster.

• The

  Rejectionist on Why Science

  Fiction?

• Steven Harper Piziks on Writing

  Nowadays-How We’ve Changed.

• Gerald M. Weinberg on Are

  We Writers Good Enough for the Internet Age?

• Janice Hardy

  on Golden

  Oldies: Start Me Up.

• Nicola Morgan on Twitter for Authors –

  Part

  1: Why? and Part

  2: Begin to Follow.

• Ian Sales on An

  untapped market? (a response to Damien

  G. Walter.

• Cécile Cristofari on Written

  in Maps.

• George R. Morgan on The

  Locus Index, Galactic Central, and other Fantasy Resources.

• What’s

  Your Favourite Heinlein Novel, Charles Stross?.

• Annalee Newitz on All

  the books you’ll be lusting for this fall season.

• Jaye Wells on Comedy

  and Other Tragedies.

• Karen Burnham reviews Shine

  edited by Jetse de Vries.

More Fun Stuff

• Suzanne

  Collins reads the first chapter of Mockingjay.

• Scans

  from The Illustrated Dune.

• 25

  Amazing Avatar Movie Digital Art Works.

• Cool Art: “For The Colony”

  by ertacaltinoz

• Fahrenheit

  451 Fire Truck.