SF Tidbits for 10/26/10

Interviews/Profiles

• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Kathe Koja.
• Ghost in the Machine interviews Terry W. Ervin.
• Chicago Speculative Fiction Community interviews Jack Campbell.
• Grinding to Valhalla interviews Janice Hardy.
• Tor interviews Peter F. Hamilton.
• NewsOK interviews Elizabeth

  Moon about the WisCon un-invite. [via File 770]

• Forthcoming: Cherie Priest will

  be answering questions on Questionland

  from November 1-3.

News

• Fantasy Magazine to Relaunch in March 2011 with a New Look, a New Approach, and a New Editor.
• 2010 Last Drink Bird Head Awards.
• Thousands of Protesters Fight to Keep The Hobbit in New Zealand.
• Superman

  is being re-imagined for a new generation by J. Michael Straczynski.

• RAISEmonkeypunk is a

  fundraising anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories that each deal with

  a central theme of monkeys and apes.

Articles

• Cat Rambo on E-publishing and Business Models.
• Gord Sellar on Gwacheon International SF Film Festival!
• Ethan Gilsdorf on 12 Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks Who Made a Difference.
• Steven Harper Piziks on Writing Nowadays-Violating the Sacred Guidelines.
• @NPR: Sci-Fi’s

  Cory Doctorow Separates Self-Publishing Fact From Fiction.

• Scott Andrews on Online

  Didn’t Kill the Print Star. [via Sean Wallace]

• GD Falksen on Steampunk and

  History.

• T.N. Tobias on The

  Art of Genre Blending.

• Charles Stross on Books

  I will not write #7: To Boldly Blow.

• Paul Krugman on The Theory of Interstellar Trade

  (from 1978, PDF). [Thanks, Mike!]

• Mike Brotherton asks Science

  in the Movies: Which Poster Is Better?

• Underwire lists 5 Reasons Lucas

  Should Film a New Star Wars Trilogy.

• Bloginhood lists Top

  5 Ramming Scenes of SF.

• Blastr lists 18 brilliant

  retro sci-fi movie posters.

More Fun Stuff

• Star

  Trek cited by Texas Supreme Court. No, really!

• New

  Infographic Makes Freddy Krueger The Laughing Stock of Silver Screen

  Slashers.

• B.M. Garrett is the creator and driving force behind the entire Alpha

  Universe which consists of the Origin Saga

• Cool art at CoolVibe: “Zombie Playground” by

  Jason Chan.

• A One

  Pound note from the Bank of Cthulhu. [via Gravity

  Lens]

• RPG

  Seinfeld.