SF Tidbits for 1/20/11

Interviews

• Nancy Fulda interviews Luc Reid.
• Angela Slatter interviews Simon Strantzas.
• Galactic Suburbia Podcast Episode 24.
• StarShipSofa interviews Jack McDevitt (podcast).
• Book Chick City interviews S.

  A. Swann.

• Locus Roundtable interviews Jon

  Courtenay Grimwood.

News

• Jack

  Ketchum Named Horror Grand Master.

• Free Download of Sybil’s Garage No. 7.
• Graham Edwards writing a new dragon novel.

Events

• The

  Suvudu Writing Contest: Win an Editorial Review.

• New

  Scientist, Flash Fiction Competition 2010.

• As part of the Fantastic Fiction free

  reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Laird Barron

  (The Imago Sequence, Occultation) &

  Nicholas Kaufmann (General Slocum’s Gold, Chasing the

  Dragon) Wednesday February 16th, 7pm at KGB Bar in NYC.

Articles

• Jeff VanderMeer’s Book Notes music playlist for his short story collection, The Third Bear (includes a free PDF of “The Quickening” from The Third Bear).
• Troisroyaumes link round-up On Piracy and Copyright.
• Fantasy Echo ebook piracy links roundup.
• Dalkey Archive Press’s Martin Riker on the “Top Favorite Books I Didn’t Publish”.
• Janet Reid on The difference between “pitch” and “query”.
• Stroppy Author on How to speak publisher – B is for Bleed.
• Juliette Wade on Managing the Juxtaposition of Normal and Abnormal.
• Janice Hardy on Keeping Your Distance.
• John Scalzi on Science-Fiction-Movie Musicals – My Fantasy Picks.
• Damien G Walter asks What’s

  the story behind genre fiction’s covers?.

• Lynn Viehl on The

  History of the Kyn.

• G. W. Thomas on Yuggoth:

  Our Ninth Planet.

• Jason Sanford’s 2010

  Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award Recommendations.

• A. Lee Martinez asks Do You

  Believe in Magic?

• Geeks are Sexy lists Ten

  80s Movies that Will Remind You of Your Geek Roots. [via Bill

  Crider]

• Charles A. Tan on eBook

  Piracy and Copyright in the Philippines.

Art

• Concept

  ships by Michael Tassie.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt:

  Among Others by Jo Walton.

• Plush

  Catwoman and Phantom of the Opera.

• Star

  Wars Eggshells.