SF Tidbits for 7/28/11
Interviews and Profiles
- Lightspeed (Erin Stocks) interviews Karen Joy Fowler.
- Lightspeed (Kat Howard) interviews Mary Doria Russell.
- SMH (Steve Meacham) interviews Marianne de Pierres.
- Flickeringmyth.com interviews Daniel H. Wilson.
- Speculate! interviews Aliette de Bodard (podcast).
- Ghost in the Machine podcast interviews Mary Janice Davidson and Lawrence M. Schoen.
- Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) interviews David Anthony Durham (video).
News
- Strange Horizons Call for volunteers: website content checking.
- So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic SF Novel Slaughterhouse Five Banned from Missouri Public High School Library Shelves.
Articles
- The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on Oblique Wisdom: The Secret of Evergreen Middle-Grade?
- Storytellers Unplugged (Richard Dansky) on Six Things You Don’t Want To Do At A Genre Writing Convention.
- Stroppy Author on How to speak publisher – D is for deadline.
- Janice Hardy on It’s an Improvement: Five Ways to Kick Your Writing up a Notch.
- Shimmer (Gra) on Life Rolls: When the World Tries to Kill Your Writing.
- Chuck Wendig on Turning Writers Into Motherfucking Rock Stars.
- Book View Cafe (Phyllis Irene Radford) on Why Steampunk?
- Nancy Kress on A Charles Stross Reading.
- John Scalzi on Comic Con Film Highlights, 2011.
- Kevin Maher on Kevin Geeks Out About Evil Dogs of 1978.
- Bibliophile Stalker reviews Feed by Mira Grant.
- Michelle Sagara on Conventions, panels, and bad panelist behaviour: a rant. [via John Scalzi]
- Trevor Hogg on Rasising the Shield: The Making of Captain America.
Art
- Concept spaceship art by Dmitry Vishnevsky.
- @CoolVibe: “Lets Talk About This” by David Wood.
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