SF Tidbits for 10/15/10

Interviews/Profiles

• The Agony Column SF in SF panel from September 11, 2010, with Amelia Beamer, Terry Bisson, Mark L. Van Name and Gary K. Wolfe (podcast).
• Book Chick City’s Where Stories Are Made features Joseph

  Delaney.

• From Bar to Bar interviews Roberto de Sousa Causo. (via Locus)
• Suvudu NYCC Video Interview: David Wellington.
• Katharine Eliska Kimbriel interviews Don Dixon (part 2).
• Marieke’s Musings interviews Janice Hardy.
• Killer Chicks interviews The Rejectionist.
• Suvudu interviews Alan

  Goldsher.

News

• WINNERS:

  World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Awards: Brian Lumley, Terry Pratchett and

  Peter Straub.

• FantasyCon 2011 Announced.
• Winners: The Science

  Fiction Showcase Award.

• Ridley

  Scott To Direct The Man In The High Castle.

• Tor.com announces Announces

  Steampunk Fortnight and the Steampunk Indie Mart Literary Corner.

Articles

• Jo Walton on Future Classics: Best science fiction by women written 2001-2010.
• Jeff VanderMeer on John le Carre: Our Kind of Traitor.
• Nancy Jane Moore on Reading for Fun: Short Stories.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Responsibility.
• John Scalzi on Shorts and Singles.
• Hannah Moskowitz on Professionalism (It’s not what you think it is).
• Pimp My Novel on You And Technology: Mega Bros.
• Karen Burnham on My

  Rule-of-Thumb on Fantasy vs. SF.

• Bruce Sterling on The

  Future of Printed Fiction.

• Heather Massey asks Where

  Is “The Mammoth Book of Sci-Fi Romance”?.

• Annalee Newitz on Why the

  Singularity isn’t going to happen.

• Peggy Kolm on Tall

  Girls Represent.

• Matthew Delman on Steampunk

  Character Type: The Savant.

• Interaction Culture on The

  Difference Between SciFi and Fantasy.

• Wired’s Gavin Edwards asks Screen: When Will the

  Great Zombie Bubble Burst?

• Blastr lists 10 terrific

  voices behind great sci-fi characters.

• Some genre films make this Video

  Compilation of Famous Last Words In Movies.

• Is it October already? Barnes and Noble lists The

  Top 100 Bestsellers of 2010.

Art

• French

  cover art for Frank Herbert’s The Green Brain by Kemar.

More Fun Stuff

• File under: Videos that are about 8 minutes too long: Alien vs

  Predator Dance Off.