SF Tidbits for 3/7/11

Interviews/Profiles

• Nancy Fulda interviews Alethea Kontis.
• SF in SF on January 15, 2011, with Terry Bisson, Diana Paxson and Rudy Rucker (podcast).
• Bart Carroll interviews Christopher Rowe.
• Boskone Panel on Mythpunk with Debra Doyle, Gregory Feeley, Greer Gilman, Theodora Goss, Michael Swanwick (video).
• Literary Mayhem interviews Robert

  Dunbar.

• Now posted: the latest Notes from Coode Street with Jonathan

  Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe (podcast).

• The NY Times profiles C.S.

  Lewis.

News

• The

  SF Signal family is getting larger. Congrats, Karen and Curtis!

• World Book

  Night launched with million book giveaway.

• PS

  Publishing now sells eBooks. First up: Black Wings by S.T.

  Joshi.

Events

• StarShipSofa Online

  Writers Workshop: Saturday 12th March 5pm to 7pm UK.

Articles

• Sandra Wickham on Novel Revisions: Sharing the Pain.
• Scott Nicholson on Freelancing.
• Laura Anne Gilman on Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers, week 9.
• Justine Larbalestier on I Love Bad Reviews.
• Juliette Wade on What leaving home means in different cultures.
• The Book Publicity Blog on How Excel can make book publicity easier.
• Janice Hardy on What a Coincidence! Creating Plots That Don’t Feel Like Accidents and Writing for Your Reader: A Follow Up.
• John Scalzi on Dear Writer: I’m Sorry, I Don’t Have Time to CRUSH YOU.
• Edmund R. Schubert on They’re Not Rules, They’re Price Tags.
• Asymco on Apps are 15 times more popular than ebooks.
• Peter Dabyshire on The

  book is dead — long live the ebook.

• Cheryl Morgan on Clarke

  Controversy Begins.

• The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log on John

  Allison – In support of libraries.

• Dan Kois asks Why

  Do Writers Abandon Novels?

• Athena Andreadis on The

  Multi-Chambered Nautilus.

• Jo Walton on Hugo Nominees:

  1973.

• Ruth Nestvold on Read an Ebook Week.
• Andrew Wheeler on The

  Syllabus for My Non-Existent SF Course.

• Michael A. Burstein on The

  Robots of Huckleberry Finn.

• Sherwood Smith on So Who

  Should I Read Next?.

• Saul Austerlitz on Adjusting

  Philip K. Dick stories for the screen. [via Paul Di Filippo]

• Bloginhood lists The

  Top 10 Tear Jerkers of SF.

• Heather Massey lists 5 Reasons To

  Avoid Heather Massey’s Once Upon a Time in Space.

• Real Science: Andre Bormanis asks The Space Review: When will

  our Martian future get here? [via Gravity

  Lens]

Art

• European

  Star Wars Posters.

• @CG GAllery: “Fighting”

  by zkai.

Happening at the SF Signal Community

• Jeffery Massey lists Greatest

  Discoveries/inventions in SciFi literary history.

More Fun

Stuff

• Rock-Paper-Scissors:

  You vs. the Computer.

• Periodic

  Table of The Empire Strikes Back Elements.

• Comic

  Strip: If Obi-Wan had really told Luke about his father.

• Star

  Trek Bathrobes. [via Gravity

  Lens]

• Galactus

  versus Charlie Sheen.

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