SF Tidbits for 4/29/11

Interviews

• Los Angeles Times interviews Charles Yu.
• Galactic Suburbia Episode 31 (podcast).
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy interviews Daniel Abraham (podcast).
• Orbit Podcast interviews Daniel Abraham (podcast).
• Locus interviews Sean Wallace.
• Islam SciFi interviews Najiyah

  Diana Helwani. [via The

  World SF Blog]

• Speculate! interviews Jonathan

  Strahan.

News

• Joanna Russ in Hospice.
• Orbit Seeks Assistance!
• Ian

  McDonald Sells Film Rights to The Dervish House. [via io9]

Events

• Good Cause: Brenda Cooper on Relay for

  Life.

Articles

• Mark Savlov on Stickmen With Ray Guns Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Steam ….
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Sea Changes.
• Janice Hardy on Real Life Diagnostic: Am I Showing or Telling?
• Lauren Beukes on Worldbuilding Through Found Objects.
• Jeff VanderMeer on The Steampunk Bible: Mecha-Elephants, Raygun Rocketships, and Great Stories.
• Jaym Gates on Decompression.
• Adrienne Kress on Steampunk Goodness.
• Mike Brotherton on Ten Iconic Science Fiction Movie Posters.
• Jessica Strider reviews The

  Tomb by F. Paul Wilson.

• Andrew Liptak reviews Fuzzy

  Nation by John Scalzi.

• Jamie Todd Rubin on Lessons

  in storytelling: advice from Isaac Asimov.

Art

• Mondo

  Star Trek Posters.

• @ConceptShips: “Steampunk

  airship” by Andrew Kim.

• @CG GAllery: “Alien

  Head” by irawan.

More Fun Stuff

• Some genre titles make this Omnivoracious list of Books

  for Mom on Mother’s Day.

• Lise A. is animating Hugo Short

  Fiction nominees.

• The

  Shadow Bytes: “My Claws Are Your Master”.

• Zombie Flash Games.
• Flash

  Game: Vampire Physics.

• Overthinking

  Star Wars – The Economics of Death Star Planet Destruction. (Thanks, Tim!)

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