SF Tidbits for 1/28/11
Interviews/Profiles
- Shawn Speakman interviews Cherie Priest.
- Matt Staggs interviews John Jackson Miller.
- Hour of the Wolf interviews Jon Sprunk (podcast).
- Carrie Vaughn interviews Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (video).
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Matt Forbeck.
- Dead Robots’ Society interviews Jana Oliver (podcast).
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia interviews Eric S. Brown.
- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction interviews Chris
Lawson
.
News
- The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings presents Andrea Hairston Pan Morigan.
- Book View Cafe publishes Nancy Jane Moore’s Changeling as an eBook.
- “Disquieting Visions” Blog Highlights Epic and Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance plus Paranormal Investigations.
- Shaun Tan Goes to the Oscars.
- Weird Tales
ups pay rate to 5 cents per word and creats new submissions portal
. [via Locus Online] - Amazon
finds Kindle books overtaking paperbacks
.
Articles
- Tobias Buckell on eBook
Piracy
. - Jim C. Hines on Wrong on Piracy, Wrong on Batman.
- Theodora Goss on Being a Brand.
- Gail Z. Martin on Postcards from Liminal Space.
- Abigail Nussbaum on Women Writing SF: Gwyneth Jones.
- Six Authors on Writing & the Martial Arts.
- Robert J. Sawyer on The Purpose of Science Fiction.
- Pajamas Media on Is Science Fiction Getting More Conservative?
- Megan Kurashige on Little Boxes.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Bad Decisions and The Midlist Writer (Changing Times Part Fifteen).
- Richard Dansky on Useful Writing Advice, ‘Cause You Need More of It.
- Janice Hardy on Breaking the Rules of Writing.
- Nicola Morgan on Awards, Prizes and Angstiness.
- Philip Pullman on Leave the libraries alone. You don’t understand their value.
- The Rejectionist on “My Agent is Exhibiting Inappropriate Behaviors. Now What?”: A Five-Step Program for the Anxious and Forlorn.
- Jamie Todd Rubin on Follow-up
on Speculative vs. Science Fiction
. - Patrick Richardson asks Is
Science Fiction Getting More Conservative?
- Karen Joy Fowler on What
I See, part 9
. - Howie Bentley on Sword and
Sorcery Music
- Matthew Sanborn-Smith on The
Story Behind “Beauty Belongs To The Flowers”
. - Scott A. Cupp on The
Element of Fire
by Martha Wells. - John Ottinger III on A Brief and
Incomplete History of Zombie Literature
. - Eric A. Diaz on Wonder
Woman On TV: What To Do…And What NOT To Do
- Fantasy & SciFi Lovin on My
“Good Fantasy” Checklist
. - Phil Plait lists 5 outrageous
astronomical goofs from great sci-fi movies
- Tor.com lists Snow
Planets
- Gwenda Bond on Gwenda
Bond’s Top Ten for 2010
- Mike Brotherton lists Ten
Things I Hate About Science Fiction
- Jon Sprunk on Worldbuilding:
The Art of Everything
.
Art
- @CoolVibe “Cole
Protocol
” by Isaac Hannaford. - @CGHUB: “Tron Legacy End of
Line Club
” by David Levy
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