SF Tidbits for 2/2/11

Interviews/Profiles

• 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, Kristen

  Lee Knapp, and Jonathan

  Laden.

• 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 Editing

  Fiction 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,

  two

  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.

More Fun

Stuff

• Free Excerpt:

  The Crippled God by Steven Erikson.

• 2010 Locus

  Recommended Reading List.

• Comic

  Preview: Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke.

• Coming February 8th: Battlestar

  Galactica Online.