SF Tidbits for 2/2/11
- Flames Rising interviews Matt Forbeck.
- SFX interviews Andy Hedgecock.
- Beyond Victoriana Lesbian Steampunk Stories — A Roundtable Interview, Part 2.
- Locus It All Started When: China Mieville.
- The Functional Nerds interviews Tim Akers (podcast).
- Fantasy Literature interviews Mark Chadbourn.
- Civilian Reader interviews Sam Sykes.
- Lara Zielinsky interviews Joselle Vanderhooft (podcast).
- The Dragon Page interviews Shawn Kupfer (podcast).
- How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends interviews Aliette de Bodard.
- Matt Staggs interviews Ben Aaronovitch.
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Andrew Lane.
- Angry Robot Podcast interviews Lauren Beukes and Aliette de Bodard.
- Un:Bound interviews Robert
J Sawyer
. - Odyssey Workshop interviews Laura Anne Gilman (podcast).
- Redstone Science Fiction interviews Philip
Brewer
, KristenLee Knapp
, and JonathanLaden
. - Erin Stocks interviews Rowena
Wang
. - Stacey Friedberg Cat Rambo.
News
- Winners of the 4th Annual Black Quill Awards.
- Horror Writers
Association announces 2010 Stoker Preliminary
. (Thanks, Andrew!) - British
Science Fiction Association 2010 Finalists
. - 2010
Analog Readers’ Award Ballot
. - The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities…Revealed…
- Now posted: Ansible
283, February 2011
. - io9 gets a
facelift
.
Events
- Best
Lightspeed Magazine Story of 2010 Poll and Contest
. - Forbidden Planet signing with
Jasper Fforde (One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing) at the
Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on
Wednesday 23rd March from 1 – 2pm
.
Articles
- John Scalzi on How
to Piss Off a Bunch of YA Authors
. - Maura McHugh on recognising women in
horror
. - Abigail Nussbaum on Women Writing SF: Mary Gentle.
- S.L. Viehl on Multiversing.
- Jeff VanderMeer on Awards, February
Fund-Raising Challenge: Make Me Dance, Support Translated Fiction
and EditingFiction Anthologies (Part 1)
. - Derek Johnson on Watching the Future: The
Fallow Period
. - Genevieve Valentine on When
the Chatbots Come to Greet Us: Adventures in Algorithmic Intelligence (and
Taunting)
. - Paul Raven on Halo
and post-franchise worldbuilding
. - Theodora Goss on Beauty, Meaning, Purpose.
- Nancy Fulda on “But That’s Not Realistic!”
- Janice Hardy on Decisions, Decisions: Character Choices That Matter.
- Jaym Gates on OMG, did you check out her encyclopedia?!
- Skud on Ebook discussions flying under the radar.
- Edward Gauvin’s Report on the 38th Angoulême International Comics Festival.
- Juliette Wade on Do you want to take on dialects?
- Patrick Hester on A Closer Look at SciFi and Fantasy, Parts one,
and three.
- Charlie Jane Anders lists 10 Greatest
Starships Of All Time
. - Marc Bernardin lists 9
fantastic full-body monster makeup jobs | Blastr
. - Andrew Liptak lists 12 revolutionary
uprisings from sci-fi movies, TV shows and books
.
Art
- Tobias Buckell on Tides
From The New Worlds
now has a new eBook cover. - Concept
Ships by Robh Ruppel
. - @CoolVibe: “Post
Apocalyptic Battle
” by Alberto Fernández.
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