SF Tidbits for 2/19/11

Interviews & Profiles

• Blake Charlton interviews Howard Jones.

News

• SFWA Elections:
  • John Scalzi is Running For SFWA President.
  • Mary Robinette Kowal is running for SFWA VP.
  • Cat Valente Announces Candidacy for Eastern Regional Director of SFWA.
• Million Writers Award Has More than $500 in Prize Money.
• Joshua Jackson Calls on Fans to Save Fringe.

Events

• Ellen Datlow’s Photos from KGB readings February 16, 2011 with Laird Barron and Nicholas Kaufmann.

Articles

• Heather Massey on Girls & Gals Love SF–So Give It To Them Already!
• Lisa Paitz Spindler on Danger Gal Friday: Xena.
• Anton Strout on Jim C. Hines’ First Book Friday.
• Video: Neal Asher answers Reader Questions.
• N.K. Jemisin on And now a word from our sponsor. [via Michael A. Burstein]
• Arafaat Ali Khan on SF in the United Arab Emirates. [via The World SF Blog]
• Esther Inglis-Arkell lists 10 Scifi and Fantasy Foods I’d Sink My Teeth Into.
• Visions of Paradise on Fiction websites.
• Paul Raven on Alan Dean Foster: conservation may have to grow from the barrel of a gun.
• Allan Cole asks How many agents

  does it take to screw a writer?

• Edward Champion lists List of Independent Alternatives to Closed Borders Bookstores.
• Jamie Todd Rubin lists Some great blogs for science fiction/fantasy fans. (Thanks, Jamie! 🙂 )

Art

• @CoolVibe:
  • “Dark Side” by Sam Kim.
  • “Worm World Saga” by Simon Kopp.
  • “Apartment Garden” by Jung Park.
  • “Delirium” by Sergey Kolesov.

More Fun Stuff

• An Extract from Blonde Bombshell by Tom Holt.
• Del Rey Spectra 50 Page Fridays: Steve Cash.
• Hitler Rages Against Matt Smith’s Doctor Who.
• Cool website: 60 Symbols – Videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy. [via MakeUseOf]