SF Tidbits for 1/22/11

Interviews & Profiles

• Kindle Blog interviews Joe Abercrombie.
• Civilian Reader interviews James Enge.
• Jessica Strider interviews Laura Bynum.
• Jim C. Hines’ First Book Friday features Erik Scott de Bie.
• Notes from Coode Street #35 with Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe.
• Marta Randall interviews Robert Silverberg (from 1982).

News

• New digital sci-fi series The Mercury Men coming soon to Syfy.com.
• Liam Neeson Voices Qui-Gon Jinn for Star Wars Clone Wars.

Ebook Deals

• You still have until the end of January to get the ebook edition of Joe Abercrombie’s Best Served Cold for $2.99.
• The duology Blood and Rust by S.A. Swiniarski (a.k.a. S. Andrew Swann) is on sale at Amazon’s Kindle store for $3.99

Events

• SplatterFest will be hosting the Comicpalooza Film Festival May 27-29, 2011 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Special guests include Tony Todd (Candyman, Star Trek: Next Generation), and Linnea Quigley (Return Of The Living Dead, A Nightmare on Elm St. 4) and many more

Articles

• Jo Walton on Religious Science Fiction.
• Joe R. Lansdale on The Day Before The Day After. [via Bill Crider’s Pop Culture Magazine]
• Tobias Buckell on A cyberpunk world.
• Andrew Liptak on 83 crazy differences between Fringe‘s alternate universe and ours.
• Joseph Mallozzi on Pitching for Television.

Art

• The Space Opera Pin-Up Art of Megan Burns.
• Concept ships by Rubén Pérez.
• 24 Digital Art Examples by Nicolas Bouvier.

More Fun Stuff

• Ellen Datlow’s pics from January 19 Gregory Frost/Linda D. Addison KGB reading.
• Del Rey Spectra 50 Page Fridays: The Warlord’s Legacy by Ari Marmell.
• Sample Chapter: Sandstorm by Christopher Rowe.
• Fantastic Flashbacks: 1982 Superman III Filming Article.
• The 11 best fake hands in sci-fi.
• Turn An Old Computer Into A Star Trek Clock With LCARS 24.
• The Zoo City Soundtrack.
• Steampunk Palin comic book.