SF Tidbits for 11/2/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Peter Orullian interviews Brandon Sanderson (video).
• BookBanter interviews Dan Wells (podcast).
• The Agony Column interviews Cara Black, Graham Hancock, and Charles Burns (podcast).
• 40kBooks interviews Bruce

  Sterling. [via Marty

  Halpern]

• Erin Stocks interviews Kai

  Lim.

• Forthcoming: Washington Post is hosting a live online chat with Orson Scott Card, Wednesday at 1pm.

News News

• Haikasoru  Science Fiction versus Fantasy–The Giveaway Contest!
• Strange Horizons 2010 Fund Drive.
• The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund eReader Drawing.
• Strange Horizons Announces New Editor-In-Chief.
• Orbit’s

  Art Department is multiplying.

• iPulpFiction.com will publish two series

  of stories based upon the holdings of the Black Mask Magazine

  franchise: Black Mask DS (Digital Series)and Black Mask PSR

  (Pulp Story Reader).

• Free Shipping in November at

  infinivoxsf.com.

• Now posted: Ansible

  280, November 2010.

Events

• Dave

  Palumbo’s exhibit of recent paintings, Friday, November 5 · 6:00pm – 8:30pm

  at Artists House Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.

Articles

• Clint Harris on The Death of RoF: Another Smoking Slag Heap in the Genre Ghetto.
• Publisher’s Weekly on How E-book Sales Compare To Print…So Far.
• Felix Gilman, Author of The Half-Made World, on Promoting His Novel.
• Mindy Klasky on When is Speculative Fiction not Speculative Fiction?
• David Steffen on The Skill of Critiquing Part One: Guidelines for Etiquette.
• Pimp My Novel on World of Tomorrow Week, Part 1 of 4: eBooks.
• Howard Waldrop & Lawrence Person review Monsters.
• Lori Ann White on Betting on the

  LHC: The Large Hadron Collider and the Future of Physics.

• Charlie Jane Anders lists Worst

  television versions of science fiction and fantasy books.

• Lavie Tidhar lists Five

  Supernatural Thrillers that inspired An Occupation of

  Angels.

• GalleyCat lists 5

  Upcoming Literary Adaptations.

• Douglas Clegg lists his Top

  20 Horror Reads.

• AMC lists Top Ten

  Zombie Flicks. [via Bill

  Crider]

Art

• Cover Launch: Leviathan

  Wakes by James S.A. Corey. (With cool

  accompanying wallpapers.)

• Cover revealed: The

  Steampunk Bible Jeff VanderMeer, art by S. J. Chambers. [via Ecstatic

  Days]

• Cover Revealed: City of

  Ruins by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, art by Dave Seeley.

• Cool Art at CoolVibe: “Cityscape” by Kerem Beyit.

More Fun Stuff

• Prologue for

  Out of the Dark by David Weber.

• 8 awesome

  retro Star Wars travel posters.

• Pumpkinception.