SF Tidbits for 6/1/11

Interviews & Profiles

• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Mira Grant.
• The Story chats with Graham Linehan and Cory Doctorow (podcast).
• Salon Future at the British Library science fiction exhibition (podcast).
• Suvudu Take Five (Matt Staggs) with Daniel H. Wilson.
• Apex Magazine interviews Annalee

  Newitz.

• The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log has video interviews with Chip Kidd.

News

• DC

  Comics to relaunch 50 titles from #1.

• Battlestar

  Galactica Online Blasts past Two Million Registered Players in Three

  Months.

• Aaron Ashmore (Smallville) joins the cast of

  Warehouse 13, premiering July 11 at 9/8c on Syfy.

Events

• Science

  Fiction and Fantasy Events in Toronto, June 2011.

• Nine

  Lives of Chloe King Contest.

Articles

• Nicola Griffith on A shocking UK sf ‘favourites’ score: men 500, women 18.
• Grasping @ Creativity reviews The Steampunk Bible.
• Cheryl Morgan on Female Invisibility Bingo. 
• Janice Hardy (Carolyn Jewel) on Paradox Lost and Paradox Regained.
• The Clarion Foundation (John Kessel) on Desperation.
• SFWA (Nnedi Okorafor) on Proprioception.
• Suvudu (Holly Black and Terri Windling) on A Return to Bordertown.
• Black Gate (Ryan Harvey) on Why Do You Like to Write? The Story of Janelle.
• Stina Leicht on Judging a Book

  by Its Cover.

• Frederik Pohl on Popular

  Publications, Part 2.

• T.N. Tobias on On

  Writing Action.

• Tor.com on Genre

  in the Mainstream: The Kurt Vonnegut Question.

• Mobylives on Is this the

  future of the book club?

• The Website at the End of the Universe on Enjoy a history of alternate

  histories.

• Paul Jessup on So

  Many Names for the Same Things.

• Joseph Mallozzi on Stargate:

  SG-1 Season 8 Memories.

• Fantasy Faction on An

  Introduction to Manga.

• The Guardian on The

  incredible shrinking presence of women SF writers. (See also: 250

  Books By Women All Men Should Read.)

Lists

• Omnivoracious lists SF/Fantasy

  for the Summer.

• Border House lists Matriarchies

  in Gaming and Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

• Gamma Squad lists The

  Top 25 Alternate Versions of Batman.

• Suite101 lists Ten

  Best Science Fiction Songs of All Time.

• Tor.com lists The 10 Most

  Badass Treks.

• Bookgasm lists 5

  New Zombie Books to Satisfy Your Hunger.

• ShockTillYouDrop lists 5 Robert

  McCammon Novels Hollywood Should Be Adapting.

Art

• Recent cover

  illustrations by Dave Palumbo.

• 20

  Absolutely Epic Sci-Fi Photo Manipulation Artworks to Ignite Your

  Imagination.

• @CoolVibe: “Unarmed”

  by Daryl Mandryk.

More Fun Stuff

• Free

  Music! The Angry Robot Remix Album.

• Science fiction

  you can dance to.

• The

  Mona Lisa Halo Motion Comic: Parts 4 and 5.

• Star

  Wars/Doctor Who Shirt: R2D WHO and CYB3R PO.

• The Shadow Bytes:

  “Steely Eyes”.

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