SF Tidbits for 6/24/11

Interviews and Profiles

• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Erin Hoffman.
• Locus interviews Patricia A. McKillip.
• MG Ellington interviews Elizabeth Bear and Michael Burstein.
• The Shirley Jackson Awards interviews Alden Bell.
• Galactic Suburbia podcast episode 35.
• The Outer Alliance interviews David Levine and Dennis Upkins (podcast).
• CNN profiles Harlan Ellison.
• If You’re Just Joining Us interviews Steve Feldberg and Macleod Andrews and Mark Boyette (podcast).
• Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) interviews A. Lee Martinez.
• Matt Cheney interviews L.E.

  Modesitt, Jr..

• @SFWA Site: Marshall Payne interviews Christopher

  Kastensmidt.

• SciFi Surplus interviews John

  Anealio (podcast).

• At Grasping for the Wind, Brian Thomas Schmidt interviews Functional Nerds

  Patrick

  Hester and John Anealio.

News

• Pottermore revealed.
• Pottermore Web Site to Sell E-Books in October.
• Meme! Women sff writers of the 1970s.
• Shirley Jackson

  Awards Fundraiser.

• Mythic

  Delirium’s issue #24 now available.

Articles

• Sam Sykes on Blargh Ugh Wugh.
• Barnes & Noble (Paul Goat Allen) on Just What the Doctor Ordered: New Anthology Expands the Legend – and Cult – of Thackery T. Lambshead.
• Death Star Pizza on 15 Sci-Fi Spaceships That Rock.
• Jim C. Hines on Goblins vs. Goldfish (Another E-book Update).
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Short Stories.
• Janice Hardy on What’s it About? Better Queries Through Movie Trailers.
• Pimp My Novel on The Long and Short of It.
• The Intern on “come on, baby, let’s start new”: on getting back together.
• Cracked (Robert Brockway) on How to Become an Author, in 5 Incredibly Difficult Steps.
• Juliette Wade on Watching out for the “Wrong” Emotion (also a Worldbuilding Post).
• Alan Rinzler on Ask the editor: Trusting the reader.
• J.R. Vogt on When

  I review a book I didn’t enjoy.

• Scott A. Cupp on Forgotten

  Book: Texas and Other Planets by Lou Antonelli.

• Dan Abnett on SFF

  Song of the Week: “Life During Wartime” by Talking Heads.

• Matthew Braga on Umi,

  we hardly knew ye: contemplating the fate of the videophone in 2011. [via Paul Di Filippo]

• Blastr on 7 sci-fi

  book-to-film adaptations that TOTALLY changed the ending.

Art

• Concept

  spaceship art by Pavel Mikhailenko

• @CoolVibe: “The Light

  Fantastic” by Reid Southen.

• @CoolVibe: “Antigravity

  Cryogenic Control” by Daniele Scerra.

• @CoolVibe: Sci-fi Wallpaper

  of the week #43 by Tobias Roetsch.

More Fun Stuff

• Infographic:

  Harry Potter And The Multibillion-Dollar Empire.

• Free

  Excerpt: Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge.