SF Tidbits for 5/10/11

Interviews

• Suvudu Take Five with C.J. Henderson.
• Writing Excuses interviews Saladin Ahmed (podcast).
• Peter Orullian interviews Patrick Rothfuss (part 3) (video).
• T.J. McIntyre interviews Jeffrey Ford.
• The Dragon Page interviews Pip Ballantine

  and Tee Morris (podcast).

News

• SFWA

  Announces Nebula Weekend Mass Signing. [via SF

  Scope]
  

• Robopocalypse German Book Trailer.

Articles

• Shweta Narayan on Tough Guide to Fantasyland’s Exotic Locales and More Tough Guide: Helpful Natives!
• Steven Harper Piziks on Writing Nowadays-Superhero Creep (A Continuing Excerpt, Part 3).
• Juliette Wade on Bringing Characters Together.
• The Intern on Week ‘o’ Critique, Part 1: The 14 Stages of Critique Acceptance.
• Nick Mamatas on Abuse Me More, I Like It–Why We Write.
• Tiffany Trent on Tiff’s Top 10 Secrets and Lies of Publishing.
• Patricia Rice on History and Future of Publishing.
• Janice Hardy on Real Life Diagnostics: POV and Openings.
• Paul Di Filippo on The

  New Cool.

• Jaym Gates reviews Hidden

  Cities by Daniel Fox.

• Howard Walrop & Lawrence Person review Thor.
• Alex Irvine on Man-Made

  Men.

• Kevin J. Anderson on A Second Life for

  Short Stories as eBooks.

• Kevin Hearne on United

  States of SF/F Shelves, Pt. 2.

• Joseph Mallozzi answers the question: If

  you could be any supervillain, who would you be?

• Victoria Strauss on Pay to Play

  Anthologies.

• Annalee Newitz lists 10

  works of science fiction that are really fantasy.

• Quiet Earth lists 13

  dark fantasy films to watch while you wait for

  Conan.

Art

• Concept

  ships by Nick Carver.

• Cover

  Launch: Timeless by Gail Carriger, design by Lauren

  Panepinto.

• @CG Gallery: “Robot 33” by

  Ramses422.