SF Tidbits for 12/2/10

Interviews

• 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

• Book
  Chick City’s Horror & Urban Fantasy Reading Challenge 2011.

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

• Video: Filming
  Transformers – The Dark of the Moon.