SF Tidbits for 4/8/11

Interviews/Profiles

• SFX interviews Trudi Canavan.
• Triangulation Podcast interviews Cory Doctorow.
• Matthew R. Bradley profiles Richard Matheson.
• Hour of the Wolf interviews Carol Emshwiller (podcast).
• Forcecasts.net interviews Paul S. Kemp (podcast).
• Jeff VanderMeer interviews Michael Swanwick.
• Doctor Who at Wondercon 2011 with Neil Gaiman, Mark Sheppard, Chris Hardwick  (video).
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt chats with Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
• Only the Best interviews China

  Miéville.

Events

• Kim Newman signing Anno Dracula.
• Patrick

  Rothfuss Reads at SF in SF on March 3, 2011 .

Articles

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Promotion.
• Lynn Michell on Amazon’s profits are small publishers’ losses.
• Amanda Rutter on E-Books are NOT a necessity!
• Paul Di Filippo on Blood Work.
• Victoria Janssen on If You Build It, They Will Come: Worldbuilding in Urban Fantasy.
• Behind the Scenes of A Game of Thrones.
• Hal Duncan on Notes from New Sodom: An Essay into Exoticism.
• Adam Roberts on Declare

  by Tim Powers.

• Paul Weimer on Hellhole

  by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

• A. Lee Martinez on Worlds Apart.
• Daniel Abraham on The Two

  Tolkiens.

• Alan Baxter says You

  can’t be a fan of SF and lament the rise of ebooks.

• Graham Edwards on Liking

  science fiction and fantasy makes you a genius.

• Abigail Nussbaum on Let’s

  See What’s Out There, Part III: “Optimism, Captain!”

• Narin Bahar lists Seven

  Things The Wonder Woman Reboot Can Learn From Recent Sci-Fi Failures.

• Real science: Video:

  ‘Robot trousers’ give paraplegics power to walk. [via Paul Di Filippo]

• Jason SAnford on From

  New Wave to SciFi Strange.

Art

• The

  awesome ABCs of comics’ great superheroes.

• Trexels,

  235 Pixelated Star Trek Characters.

More Fun

Stuff

• Serenading Unicorn

  Serenades Sarah Silverman. [via Paul Di Filippo]

• 20

  Tag Lines You’ll Never Forget.

• If

  Mad Max featured kids.

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