SF Tidbits for 3/4/11

Interviews/Profiles

• Dead Robots Society interviews Alan Dean Foster (podcast).
• TOR-Talk interviews Paul S. Kemp (podcast). 
• Spineless Wonders interviews Deborah Biancotti. 
• A Little Imagination interviews Gwendolyn Clare.
• Civilian Reader interviews Kevin J. Anderson.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: M.J. Putney.
• Booklife interviews Jim

  C. Hines.

News

• It’s Official: George

  R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons will be available July 12,

  2011. For realz.

  (George R. R. Martin’s Take)

• Star

  Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace will be reelased on February 10,

  2012.

• Adults

  and teenagers still prefer prints books to e-books, WBD survey says.

• Blade

  Runner Prequels and Sequels on the Way (And How They Should Handle

  Them).

• Apex

  Books Announce New Guy Hasson Book, Secret Thoughts.

• Clarion South Writers Workshop on Hold. 
• Oscar Winner Designs Cover of New Sherlock Holmes Anthology.
• Hobbit films may be given separate titles.

Articles

• Holly Black on YA Mafia and the Ruination of Careers.
• Justine Larbalestier on YA Mafias & Other Things You Don’t Need to Worry About.
• Gwenda Bond on Secret Cabals are Overrated.
• Lauren Beukes on Team Paper vs Team E-Book.
• Geeks of Doom on Doom Deliveries: Scents & Scrolls Box From HBO’s ‘Game Of Thrones’.
• Nancy Fulda on Revising vs. Polishing.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Even More Writer Survival Skills (Changing Times Part Twenty).
• Janice Hardy on Trust Me, I’m a Reader: Writing for Your Audience.
• Jim C. Hines on Making the Most of Lunch Breaks.
• The OF Blog on Interesting article on “colonization”.
• Jon Sprunk on Novel Building: The Journey from Seedling to Bookshelf.
• Frederik Pohl on Hal

  Clement, Part 2: Divided Mission.

• Anton Strout on Trying

  not to wet myself while gaming, or how I found my writing style.

• Joe Abercrombie on Intellect

  and Emotion.

• Paul Di Filippo on How

  Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary

  Quirks.

• Neal Asher lists 5

  Desert Island Reads.

• Cybermage lists Top

  Military Science Fiction Series Mk II.

Art

• Dave

  Elsey Designs Cover of New Sherlock Holmes Anthology.

• @Artist’s site: “Rekonesans”

  by Adam Tredowski.

• @CoolVibe: “The Law

  2112” by Robin Olausson.

• @CoolVibe: “Wonderlife” by

  Abdul Ali.

More Fun Stuff

• Excerpt:

  Gravity Pilot by M.M. Buckner by M.M. Buckner.

• Sci-Fi

  Fan Letter: Radio Rivendell.

• Infographic: The

  Death Star.