SF Tidbits for 8/26/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Book

  Lovers Inc. interviews Gail

  Carriger.

• Gail Z. Martin interviews Scott Sigler and Judith Briles

  (podcast).

• Locus interviews Charlie

  Jane Anders.

• The Rejectionist interviews Nnedi

  Okorafor.

• Gregory Manches interviews Dave

  Stewart.

• Suvudu Terry

  Brooks & Peter V. Brett Chat.

• Angela Slatter interviews

  Alan

  Baxter and Kim

  Wilkins.

• I Should Be Writing interviews David

  Williams (podcast).

• Matt Staggs interviews Paul

  Jessup.

• Flickering Myth profiles Steven

  Spielberg (Part 1).

News

• Norilana Books –

  4th Anniversary Non-Sale Sale!

• DailyScienceFiction.com launches 1

  September with e-mailed and posted stories. [via SFScope]

• The 3rd book in

  David Moody’s Hater trilogy is titled Them or

  Us.

• BBC

  Officially Announces Dirk Gently TV Show.

Articles

• Jeff

  VanderMeer on Shared

  Worlds: Zombies, Alien Babies, and Book Recommendations from Students and Shared

  Worlds Teen Writing Camp This Summer.

• P.N.

  Elrod on Always

  read the contract.

• The Little Red Reviewer on Let’s

  talk about manga.

• Janice Hardy on Re-Write

  Wednesday Golden Oldie: Preposition Patrol.

• John Scalzi on The

  2010 Summer Sci-fi Wrap-Up.

• Jason Sandford on A

  great year for science fiction and fantasy novellas.

• Gary Westfahl on Notes

  from a Mixed Marriage, Or, The Lady and the Monster. Locus Online’s Mark R.

  Kelly responds.

• Michael A. Burstein on Alienating

  Readers.

• Shawn Speakman on How

  Terry Brooks Changed My Life.

• io9 on Important

  scientific ideas that inform science fiction and 25

  classic science fiction movies that everybody must watch.

• Cracked lists 6

  Baffling Flaws in Famous Sci-Fi Technology.

• Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist lists Favorite

  SFF characters.

• Furious Fanboys lists 9 Jaw

  Dropping Explosions In Sci-Fi.

• SFX lists Top 10 Greatest

  SF&F characters of all time. [via Whedonesque]

More Fun Stuff

• The

  Mars of Leigh Brackett depicted through Russian endpaper art.

• Abby Normal

  Soap In A Jar.

• Avalanche Software Art: Brian Cutler’s awesome Bowie

  in Space!

• Cool art at CoolVibe: “Landing Platform” by MiNze.