SF Tidbits for 6/1/11
- 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 ThreeMonths
. - Aaron Ashmore (Smallville) joins the cast of
Warehouse 13
, premiering July 11 at 9/8c on Syfy.
Events
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: 250Books 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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I’m 99% sure that the link to Dominic Monaghan being in Warehouse 13 goes to a photo of Shawn Ashmore.
And now to correct myself, the photo goes to Aaron Ashmore (though they are easy to confuse, they’re twins), according to this: http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2011/02/17/aaron-ashmore-smallville-reports-for-duty-at-syfys-hit-series-warehouse-13-923410/20110217syfy01/
Ack! My fault — fixing now. Thanks for the correction.
Thanks for another mention of Shadow Bytes!
I’m glad you liked the review. Thanks for posting.