SF Tidbits for 9/13/10

Interviews

• The Agony

  Column interviews William

  Gibson (podcast).

• Peter Orullian interviews Dave

  Wolverton.

• Jonathan Strahan chats with Alisa

  Krasnostein and Tansy Rayner Roberts (podcast).

• John Joseph Adams interviews Gary

  Braunbeck.

News

• RIP, Kevin

  McCarthy, star of the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

• Curtain up

  for the world’s first Klingon opera.

• Strock

  Acquires Fantastic Books.

• Lost

  tapes of classic British television found in the US. [via Kaleidoscope]

• James

  Cameron: ‘Piranha 3D is bottom of the barrel’. [via China

  Miéville]

Events

• Scott

  Westerfeld & Susan Beth Pfeffer, September 15th

• Zombie week starts today at Tor.com!

Articles

• Kaaron

  Warren on Beyond

  the Wordcount.

• Ahmed A. Khan on Islamic

  Science Fiction Coming Into Light.

• Tehani Wessely on

  (Australian) Open

  short story markets – revised!

• David Morrell on The Present

  and Future of Publishing.

• BBC News on Is our relationship

  with books changing?

• Sherwood Smith on Why Do We

  Read?

• Juliette Wade on Cheerios

  and Space – and Language and Culture?

• Brandon Sanderson on Postmodernism

  in Fantasy.

• Joe R. Lansdale on Blood Sport. [via

  Bill

  Crider]

• Andrew Wheeler on Jeff

  VanderMeer’s New SF Column in the New York Times.

• Torque Control on Short

  Story Club: “A Serpent in the Gears”.

• Benjamin Tate on Dreams.
• Karen Burnham is Burned

  Out on Old-School Fantasy.

More Fun Stuff

• From 2008: 50

  Science Fiction & Fantasy Authors SFX readers consider greater than Robert

  E. Howard.

• Cool art at Coolvibe: “Spiral Towers” by Tomas Honz,

  “Evil Mario” by Kendrick Tu,

  and “Sunset Tower” by Eric

  Gagnon.

• The

  Kevin Flynn Ascii Art Easter Egg.