SF Tidbits for 12/21/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Tehani Wessely interviews Catherynne M. Valente.
• Ghost in the Machine interviews P.G. Holyfield and Gabrielle Harbowy (podcast).
• SFF Audio chats with Gregg Margarite and Mark Douglas Nelson (podcast).
• Panic in the Lingerie profile on Lisa Paitz Spindler.
• Jonathan Strahan chats with Gary K. Wolfe (podcast).
• Guardian profiles John

  Wyndham.

• McSweeney’s profiles Larry

  Eisenberg.

• Frederik Pohl on Judith

  Merril, Part 9: Friends Again Before the End.

News

• Pelgrane Launches Stone Skin Press Fiction Imprint.
• World Newton Reading Extravaganza After Reading: Cathrynne M. Valente, Belly Dancing and Burlesque on 11/21/2010.
• LEC

  Book Reviews Names Pyr Co-Publisher of the Year.

• Apex Publications brand new zombie

  imprint TZF Books has just released it’s first title: Asylum by

  Mark Allan Gunnells

• Global

  e-book sales at Random House jump 250% on

  2009.

• Happy

  3rd Anniversary to BestScienceFictionStories!

• Besides

  writing Superman for DC Comics, Chris Roberson is also writing

  Elric for Boom.Congrats, Chris!

Articles

• Jaym Gates on The Relevance of YA for Adults: The Harry Potter Effect.
• Kenneth Mark Hoover on Truth in Fiction.
• Ryan Faas on Is Apple cutting small publishers out of ebook features?
• Cory Doctorow on Zen and the Art of Self-Publishing.
• Charlie Stross on It’s made out of meat.
• Janice Hardy on Sounds Good to Me: Words That Sound Like What They Mean, but Aren’t Onomatopoeia.
• Mark Charan Newton on My

  Reading Year.

• Cory Doctorow on Zen

  and the Art of Self-Publishing.

• Theodora Goss on Why Go to

  the Museum? [via Richard

  Larson]

• Lawrence Person on The Lame

  Excuse Books December 2010 Catalog.

• Adam

  Roberts and Andrew

  Liptak saw Tron: Legacy. A.

  Lee Martinez did not.

• Tripbase lists Top 10

  fictional travelers.

• Joe Sherrry on The

  Top 9 Author Discoveries of 2010.

Art

• John Picacio’s GRRM Calendar is made of monthly awesome.
• A gallery of German film posters. [Thanks, Fred!]
• @CG Gallery: “Jessica Rabbit” by Sean Ellery. (See also: his “Judge Dread“.)

More Fun Stuff

• Ellen

  Datlow’s photos from the December 15 KGB reading.

• Law and the Multiverse blog considers superheroes, supervillains, and the law. [Thanks, Steve!]

Events

• Ben Aaronovitch signing at Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on Saturday 15th January 1 – 2pm.
• Tom Kidd’s OtherWorlds Sweepstakes Giveaway. Here’s a video preview of the book: