SF Tidbits for 1/17/11

Interviews

• Spark interviews Eric Rabkin (podcast).
• Jonathan Strahan chats with Gary K. Wolfe (podcast).
• Fictionaut Blog interviews Kit

  Reed.

• Locus Roundtable interviews Gary

  K. Wolfe.

News

• Tehalka Pulp & Noir Special Issue.
• RIP Jerry Weist (1949-2011).
• Vampire & Paranormal Trend Faded in 2010.
• Colin Farrell will play

  Douglas Quaid in the a Total Recall remake that has little similarity

  with Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 original.

• The Mid-January 2011 issue of the SF Site

  is now online. (Vote For

  Your Favourite Books of 2010!)

Articles

• Rich Horton’s Summaries for Kaleidotrope, Albedo One, Weird Tales, Flurb.
• Neil Gaiman on eBooks.
• Laura Anne Gilman on Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers, week 2.
• Sherwood Smith on Openings: In the Beginning . . ..
• Juliette Wade on Worldbuilding is not just Fantasy: the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
• Janice Hardy on Planning Your Novel With Plot.
• James Knapp on Hard to

  Love.

• Ian Sales lists The Ten Greatest

  Authors.

• The Shatzkin Files on What

  the powers-that-be think about DRM, and an explanation of the cloud. [via 40kBooks]

• Mark Charan Newton on Post-Apocalyptic

  Dioramas.

More Fun Stuff

• Read

  the first three chapters of Paul McAuley’s Cowboy Angels.

• Batmen,

  subathing.