SF Tidbits for 1/19/11

Interviews/Profiles

• The Functional Nerds interviews Lavie Tidhar (podcast).
• Nancy Fulda interviews Gareth L. Powell.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Kameron Hurley.
• I Should Be Writing interviews Christiana Ellis and Skyler White (podcast).
• Erin Stocks interviews Tanith

  Lee.

• Christie Yant interviews Paolo

  Bacigalupi.

• Decadent Publishing interviews Graylin

  Fox.

• Sam Jordison interviews Jon

  Courtenay Grimwood.

• Cheryl Morgan interviews Judith

  Clute and Paul

  Cornell (videos).

News

• Jack Ketchum Named Grand Master.
• Groundbreaking Czech SF Magazine Ikarie Shuts Down, Staff Start New XB-1.

Articles

• Jim C. Hines on Arguing Book Piracy.
• Misty Massey on Free Books

  Aren’t Free.

• Robin D. Laws on Bad Writing Advice: On Darling-Killing.
• Keith Clayton on Transmedia.
• Madeleine E. Robins on I Don’t Revise, I Retype.
• Ursula K. Le Guin on A Riff on the Harper Contract.
• Janice Hardy on Setting the Right Tone for Your Story.
• Edward Gauvin on Jean Ray.
• Cheryl Morgan asks What Is Genre

  Anyway?

• G.W. Thomas on Edgar

  Rice Burroughs’ Eternal Lion.

• Colin Harvey on The

  Rise & Rise of Paolo Bacigalupi.

• Law and the Multiverse on Supervillains

  and the Insanity Defense.

• Eat My Zombie on 15 Gadgets Inspired by Sci-fi Fiction.
• Topless Robot lists 17

  Sci-Fi Characters from Frank Zappa Songs.

Art

More Fun Stuff

• Perry

  Rhodan fan trailers

• Chris Roberson on Kerry

  Callen’s “Super-Antics”.