SF Tidbits for 5/3/11

Interviews/Profiles

• Jennifer Konieczny interviews Genevieve Valentine.
• Geek Syndicate interviews Lauren Beukes (video).
• Literary Rambles interviews Janice Hardy.
• Suvudu Take Five with Peter Orullian.

News

• Mummified

  body of Yvette Vickers (Attack of the 50-Foot Woman and Attack of the

  Giant Leeches) found in her home. [via Marty

  Halpern]

• Brimstone Press titles to be pulped on Saturday.
• Apex

  Magazine Issue 24 released.

• Viz

  Media Launches New iPhone App.

Events

• Saturday 7 May is Gene

  Wolfe’s 80th birthday. Leave him b-day wishes on this blog set up just for the

  occasion. [via Black

  Gate]

• To celebrate the release of

  Under Heaven in paperback, Guy Gavriel Kay will be available

  for a conversation with readers online Tuesday, May 3rd.

Articles

• Terri Windling on Joanna Russ (1937 – 2011).
• Mercedes M. Yardley on Personal Feedback, or, Form Rejections Are Our Friends.
• Juliette Wade on A different take on following the writing dream.
• Lynda Williams on Who Edits You?
• Kate Griffin on Feminine Fantasy.
• Cheryl Morgan on Cameron Acts on Science Fiction Threat.
• Sarah Avery on Teaching Fantasy Part 1: Rewards, Backfires, Escapes.
• Kate Griffin on Feminine

  Fantasy.

• Jon Sprunk on Building

  Character.

• Paul Di Filippo reviews Duncan

  the Wonder Dog by Adam Hines.

• Stephen A. Watkins on Now

  Hiring in the Airship Lounge: Fantasy Archetypes Get Steampunked.

• Jamie Todd Rubin on Vacation

  in the Golden Age, Episode 14: August 1940.

• Vandana Singh on Diffractions:

  Rewilding the World.

• Frederik Pohl on Robert

  Silverberg.

Art

• @CoolVibe: “Starports” by

  Carlos Núñez de Castro Torres.

• @CoolVibe: “Desert

  hunters” by Vlado Krizan.

• @Lawrence Person’s Futuramen: A Doodle by William F. Nolan.

More Fun Stuff

• Free

  Excerpt: The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi.

• Trailer: “The Green

  Book” by Amal El-Mohtar.

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