SF Tidbits for 5/18/11

Interviews/Profiles

• Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) interviews Stacey Levine.
• Lightspeed (Stacey Friedberg) interviews Nancy Kress.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Brian Mallow (podcast). 
• The Next Web (Simon Owens) profiles Jay Lake.
• Science Fiction Awards Watch has a new Hugo Awards podcast.
• The Dragon Page interviews Bradley Beaulieu (podcast).
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) Take Five with Coleridge Cook.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Maria Dahvana Headley.
• Lisa Paitz Spindler interviews Leslie

  Dicken.

News

• Finalists: 2011 Prix

  Aurora Awards.

• Neil Gaiman Doctor Who Episode Spawns T-Shirts & Mugs.

Events

• Forbidden Planet hosts a

  signing by Brandon Sanderson (The Way of Kings Parts I and II)

  at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on

  Saturday 4th June 1 – 2pm.

Articles

• Juliette Wade on Merging Experience and Fiction (Write what you know).
• Alina Klein on The Physiology of Foreshadowing. 
• Jim C. Hines on E-book Updates.
• Cemetery Dance on The Full Dark, No Stars Covers That Might Have Been.
• The Clarion Foundation (Richard Curtis) on The Real Kindle Killer.
• Brit Mandelo on The

  2010 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards.

• Bibliophile Stalker on The

  SF&F Short Story Collection Meme.

• Scott Edelman on Who

  wrote those Marvel splash page headers in the mid-’70s? I did!

• Lightspeed Magazine on When

  the Brain Sees God on a Toaster Pastry.

• Kim Newman lists 10

  vampire novels that helped inspire Anno Dracula.

• The Mary Sue on The 10

  Greatest Vampire Archetypes.

• Culturing Science on The Biology of Zombies, Part

  1 and Part

  2.

• Stuart Clark on What

  conversation about ebooks?

• Jeff VanderMeer reviews Embassytown

  by China Miéville.

• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) on Ten Facts You May Not Know About China Miéville.
• Jacqueline Lichtenberg on Should

  You Make Up A Pen Name (Part I)?

• Ty Franck on Using

  rules as a distraction.

Art

• @CoolVibe: “Underwater

  City” by Nicolas Ferrand.

• @CoolVibe: “Sci-fi Wallpaper

  of the week #39” by Fallen Frontier.

• The

  55 Dragons Design Project.

More Fun Stuff

• The

  X-Muppets. [via Neatorama]

• Free

  Excerpt: Embassytown by China Miéville.

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