SF Tidbits for 2/28/11

Interviews/Profiles

• Working Writers interviews Janice Hardy.
• Jonathan Strahan chats with Gary K. Wolfe (podcast).
• The Outer Alliance interviews Warren Rochelle.
• Dead Robots Society interviews P.G. Holyfield (podcast).
• Little Miss Zombie interviews Allyson Bird, Monica J. O’Rourke, Fran Friel.

News

• J.R.R.

  Tolkien novel Mirkwood in legal battle with author’s

  estate.

• John

  Klima Ends Print Version of Electric Velocipede.

Events

• Science

  Fiction and Fantasy writing competition – UCLan Publishing.

• Shorts International Honors

  Achievements In Short Film At The First Annual 2011 Shorts Awards.

• Jasper

  Fforde signing at Liverpool and Manchester.

Articles

• Wendy Wagner on Apprentice Word Smiths.
• Theodora Goss on How to Revise.
• Laura Anne Gilman on Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers, week 8.
• Sherwood Smith on Fiction for Adults.
• James Alan Gardner on The Skill List Project: Reading Judiciously.
• Aliette de Bodard on Plotting Your Short Stories.
• Rich Horton’s Summary: Cabinet des Fées, 2010.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Style is Story is Style.
• Richard Dansky on This Essay Sucks So You Should Never Read Anything Ever Again.
• Stroppy Author on World Book Night – good or bad?
• Jon Sprunk on Roles

  That Bind: Roleplaying Games and the Fantasy Genre.

• David Surridge on Epic

  Fantasy: Notes Toward a Definition.

• Terri Windling On Myth

  & Writing.

• Mostraum Viewpoint lists 111

  Science fiction books to read before a supernova kills us all.

• Jo Walton on Hugo Nominees:

  1972.

• A. Lee Martinez on Chasing

  “The Writer”.

• John Mullan of The Guardian lists 12

  of the best new novelists and elicits reponses from M.

  John Harrison and Hal

  Duncan.

• Torque Control on BSFA

  Award Nominations: Non-Fiction Statistics.

• The Guardian lists Thomas

  Bloor’s top 10 tales of metamorphosis. [via Lit

  Lists]

Art

• 20 Visionary Flying Cars Concept

  Art.

More Fun Stuff

• Behold!

  A Senior Citizen Lightsaber Duel Not Involving Christopher Lee.

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