SF Tidbits for 6/13/11
Interviews and Profiles
- Odyssey Workshop interviews Erin Hoffman.
- Comic Book Outsiders interviews Lauren Beukes (podcast).
- David Steffen interviews Brent Knowles.
- Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Karin Gastreich, M.C. Chambers, and Jonathan Wood (podcast).
- From Bar to Bar interviews Alastair Reynolds.
- The Atlantic interviews Tamora Pierce.
- I Should Be Writing interviews John Picacio (podcast).
News
- Terry Pratchett starts process to take his own life.
- Salman Rushdie says TV drama series have taken the place of novels.
- 2011 Chronos Awards winners.
Articles
- Jeff VanderMeer on Super 8 Review by Alien Grak-Pha Teekelp.
- Book View Cafe (Laura Anne Gilman) on Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers, week 23.
- Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on Man vs. Woman vs. Human.
- Janice Hardy on Look Close: Pinpointing the Parts of Your Plot.
- Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Nancy Jane Moore) on WisCon Panel 106: The Future’s Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed.
- Inkpunks (Morgan Dempsey) on Awareness and Writing.
- Boomtron on Fantastic Figures of Fantasy Book Covers – May 2011.
- Nancy Fulda on Why it’s Tough to Be Your Own Editor.
- Gregory Benford on Terraforming Ganymede with
Robert A. Heinlein, Part 1
and Part 2. [via Locus Online] - Barebones ezine on Fredric
Brown Lost Stories – Part Two
. - Jo Walton on Hugo Nominees:
1987
. - Paul Di Filippo on How
to Write Science Fiction
. - Jamie Todd Rubin on Vacation
in the Golden Age, Episode 17: November 1940
. - Heather Massey on Take
My Damsel In Distress–Please
.
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