SF Tidbits for 1/21/11

Interviews/Profiles

• Nancy Fulda interviews Aliette de Bodard.
• Patty Templeton interviews Amal El-Mohtar.
• Jennifer Konieczny interviews Priya Sharma.
• Locus It All Started When: Jon Courtenay Grimwood.
• Suvudu On Air: The Lovecraft Documentary Interview Edition.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Jo Walton.
• Mihir Wanchoo interviews K.A. Stewart.
• Locus Online interviews Vandana

  Singh.

• Locus roundtable with Peter Straub and Gary K. Wolfe (podcast).

News

• The Best of

  2010 Steampunk Facebook Awards.

• The author lineup for

  The Immersion Book of Steampunk .

• Australian

  anthology After the Rain is being offered as a limited edition

  e-book to benefit the Queensland Flood Relief Appeal. [via Locus Online]

• 4

  Early Paul McAuley novels now in eBook format.

• Chris

  Roberson’s Superman/Batman #80, the second part of the two-part

  World’s Finest story that began in issue 79, is in stores

  now.

Events

• Forbidden Planet host a signing

  and Q&A by Jonathan Stroud, plus live art by Andrew Donkin and Lee Sullivan

  at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on

  Thursday 24th February 6 – 7pm.

Articles

• Tom Dupree on Adventures In Editing, Part I.
• Nicola Griffith on Updating science fiction for republication.
• Peter Bil’ak on What is Typography?
• Douglas Cohen on Market Insights: Douglas Cohen, Realms of Fantasy.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Infinity Plus: New Science Fiction/Fantasy Books for the Kindle.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Midlist Writers & Big Publishing  (Changing Times Part Fourteen).
• Janice Hardy on Talking About An Evolution: How Do You Know if Your Writing is Getting Better?
• Adam P. Knave on Core

  Concepts: Superman. [via Cultural

  Gutter]

• Science Magazine on The Science Hall of Fame. [via Locus Online]
• Kyle Munkittrick on Why

  I’m Not Afraid of the Singularity.

• Keith R.A. DeCandido on the compleat bibliography of

  Keith R.A. DeCandido.

• Jon Courtenay Grimwood on First find

  your story.

• Joe Schreiber on Top

  10 Awesomest Things about being an EU Author.

• Gail Z. Martin on My Name is Asher Lev.
• Scott A. Cupp on Forgotten

  Book: Webb’s Weird Wild West by Don Webb.

Art

• Andreas

  von Cotta concept ships.

• @Distracted By Star Wars: “AT-AT

  Walker Blueprint” by by Vespertin.

• @CoolVibe: “Sci-fi

  paintings” by Sergey Musin.

More Fun Stuff

• Read

  an excerpt of Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente.

• The

  Inception Burrito.