SF Tidbits for 12/2/10
- Erin Stocks interviews John
Picacio. - Suvudu interviews Mary Statham.
- Angela Slatter interviews Pamela
Freeman. - SFX interviews Angry Robot’s Lee
Harris. - Straship Sofa interviews Greg
Bear. - Jeremy L.C. Jones interviews Theodora
Goss. - The Dragon Page interviews John Joseph
Adams (podcast).
News
- Project
Gutenberg in Dispute with Poul Anderson’s Estate. - SFWA
Announces New Ombudsman. - 2011
Sofanauts Awards Nominations. - Shaun
Tan’s The Lost Thing Shortlisted for Oscar. - Now posted: Ansible
281, December 2010. - Also posted: Lightspeed
#7. - Horror
Writers Association now accepting non-professional members. - Vernor
Vinge’s sequel to A Fire Upon The Deep coming in October. - Del
Rey announces Crysis novel written by Peter Watts to be
released in March 2011. - Frank
Darabont Axes All Walking Dead Writers For Season Two. - Google
Is Said to Be Opening E-Book Store Next Year, Taking On Amazon.com.
Events
Articles
- Rachelle Gardner on Royalty
Rates. - Juliette Wade on Working
with no text. - Janice Hardy on Re-Write
Wednesday: Send up the (Red) Flag: Words That Often Spell Trouble. - Jason Sanford on Are
We Heading Toward a Faith-Based Science? - Vincent McCaffrey on An
Embarrassment of Riches. - Edward Gauvin on Some
Notes on the Belgian School of the Strange (2). - John Scalzi asks Is
Science Fiction This Era’s Western? Also: Why,
Yes, We DID Totally Call That on SG:U. - Mike Brotherton asks Hard
Science Fiction and Author Gender: Does It Matter To You?. - Jagi Lamplighter asks Writing
the Great Book- Part 1, What Makes A Book Great? - Jeremiah Tolbert asks What
defines Young Adult fiction? - Lou Antonelli on The Three
Amigos. - Mike Resnick on Me, Joseph, and the
Messiah. - Adamosf on Thieves’
World. - Alex Zoltak on The
Fiction of Reality. - Cory Doctorow reviews Paolo
Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker. - Derek Johnson is Watching the Future: In Which
Your Humble Columnist Gets into the Spirit of the Season (Again). - Onnesha Roychoudhuri on Books After
Amazon. [via Cliff Pickover] - Paul Biba asks Are
Kindle competitors taking the wrong approach? [via 40k] - Keir Thomas on E-book
Piracy Is Here. So What?
Art
- Derryl Murphy Napier’s
Bones Hardcover Illustration Update. - Cool art at CoolVibe: “Hostile Takeover” by Marek
Okon; “SteamPunk
Octopus” by Alex Broeckel. - Cool Art at CG Gallery: “Speed13” by
Simon Weaner - Concept
Ships art by Ian McQue.
More Fun Stuff
By the way, the links to the John Picacio and Mary Statham interviews point to the same place (the Mary Statham interview).
Link fixed — thanks!