SF Tidbits for 6/6/11

Interviews & Profiles

• The Thoughts of a Book Junky interviews Marianne de Pierres.
• The Coode St. Podcast with Jonathan Strahan, Gary K. Wolfe, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Geoff Ryman.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Jonathan Walker.

News

• Call for Submissions: Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2012.
• Call for Submissions: Charming: Modern Gay Erotic Fairy Tales.
• Realms of Fantasy will be open to electronic submissions in the future.
• Winners of 2010 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awards.

Events

• The New York Review of Science

  Fiction Readings presents Gregory Frost and Michael Swanwick, Tuesday, June 7th,

  at The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art in NYC.

Articles

• Steven Brust remembers Joel Rosenberg, 1954-2011.
• Alan Baxter on Aussie authors on Twitter.
• Inkpunks (Adam Israel) on Know Your Markets.
• Matthew Cheney on “Gender & Science Fiction”: The Novels.
• Mike Brotherton On Taking Criticism.
• Book View Cafe (Jennifer Stevenson) on E-publishing wisdom from Wiscon 35.
• Book View Cafe (Laura Anne Gilman) on Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers, week 22.
• Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on Text, Us, and Authority.
• Juliet E McKenna on Women being published in SF – an issue for all genre readers.
• Mythic Scribes on Who’s

  Killing Fantasy? You Are!.

• Jeff VanderMeer says The

  ODD? Anthology Has a Theme Song and offers “The

  Quickening” from The Third Bear Story Collection.

• Adam Roberts reviews Robopocalypse

  by Daniel H. Wilson.

• Jo Walton on Hugo Nominees:

  1986.

• Juliet McKenna on Women

  being published in SF – an issue for all genre readers.

• The Blog That Time Forgot on Robert

  E. Howard and the Bechdel Test.

• David Bishop on Things

  I’ve learned about the craft of writing.

• Martha Wells on Cover Art.
• Bibliophile Stalker on Do

  the Details Matter?.

• Graham Edwards on Revisiting

  Cinefex, Issue 2, August 1980.

• Brain Pickings (Maria Popova) on Bibliographic: The 100 Best Design Books of the Past 100 Years.
• Gameranx lists The

  25 Best Horror Games of All Time. [via The

  Cultural Gutter]

• David

  Brin’s Top Choices in Science-Oriented WebComics.

Art

• Summer

  of ’76! The Grooviest Comic Covers of All Time: A Marvel-ous Summer.