SF Tidbits for 5/26/11

Interviews/Profiles

• SCBWI Tokyo Translation Group (Alexandor O. Smith) interviews Cathy Hirano.
• Angela Slatter interviews Peter Tennant.
• Comic Book Resources interviews Chris Roberson.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Ellen Kushner.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Gail Carriger.
• BBC Radio (Woman’s Hour) features Is science fiction still a male-dominated genre? (Gwyneth Jones, Karen Traviss and Farah Mendlesohn) (podcast).
• The Agony Column (Rick Kleffel) interviews Michael Blumlein (podcast).
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews China Mieville.
• USA Today has a video interview with Daniel

  H. Wilson (Robopocalypse).

• BEA interviews Book Country’s Colleen

  Lindsay.

• Innsmouth Free Press interviews C.J. Henderson.
• Walker of Worlds interviews Elspeth

  Cooper.

News

• Indie Booksellers Choice Awards Winners Unveiled.
• The Audies Winners.
• SFWA Election Results.

Events

• Lint:

  The Movie – starring Alan Moore, Stewart Lee, Steve Aylett, Josie Long, Jeff

  Vandermeer, D. Harlan Wilson, Robin Ince, Mitzi Szereto, Bill Ectric, Andrew

  O’Neill, Vessel, Leila Johnston, 7-Inch Stitch; screening in Brighton UK on June

  26.

Articles

• Aqueduct Press on Twenty-Five Commemorations of Joanna Russ.
• Juliette Wade on Worldbuilding: What’s on the page?
• Blog Critics (Gordon Hauptfletisch) reviews The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children by Brendan Connell.
• Janice Hardy on Stepping Out: A Look at POV Shifts.
• Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on The Old Witch and the Children.
• Film Critic (John Scalzi) on Space Travel, the Science-Fiction-Film Way.
• SFWA (Ann VanderMeer) on The Watcher and the Weird.
• Robin D. Laws on Against Creative Paralysis (Starter Edition).
• Salon on 10

  year time capsule: Douglas Adams says goodbye – 10 year time capsule. [via

  Paul Di Filippo]

• Justina Robson is featured on Book

  Chick City’s “Where Stories Are Made” feature.

• Inkpunks (Jaym Gates) on Publicity for

  writers.

• Matthew Cheney Teaching

  with The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. [via Locus

  Roundtable]

• CBC Radio on the Prix Aurora

  Award nominated novel Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell

  (podcast).

• Graham Edwards on When

  Dragoncharm went to Hollywood (almost).

• Andrew Wheeler on Characteristic

  Ages of Genres. [via Locus

  Roundtable]

• Bradley P. Beaulieu on Top Ten

  Pointers for Writers.

• Stina Leicht on Writing

  Urban Fantasy without Vampires, detectives and tramp-stamped chicks.

Art

• 50

  Minimalist Movie Posters.

• “Batman

  Vs Penguin” by Simon C. Page.

• Concept

  ship by Richard Lyons.

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