SF Tidbits for 7/29/11

Interviews and Awards

• Locus interviews Kelley Armstrong.
• Patty Jansen interviews Jodi Cleghorn.
• Morrigan Books interviews Rob Hood.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Steven R. Boyett.
• Chuck Wendig interviews Adam Christopher.
• Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy interviews Daniel H. Wilson (podcast).
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Kirsten Imani Kasai.
• Suvudu chat with Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon.
• Grasping for the Wind (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) interviews Andrew

  P. Mayer.

• Innsmouth Free Press interviews Kirsty Greenwood.

News

• Sakyo Komatsu, RIP.
• Now recruiting – new member of the Angry Robot team wanted.
• To promote Greg Egan’s new book Clockwork Rocket, Night

  Shade Books is giving away Greg Egan’s Zendegi eBook for free

  via Barnes and Noble and Amazon

• The

  Winners of the Scifi Trivia Giveaway have been announced. This was sponsored

  by Pyr and hosted by Adventures in SciFi

  Publishing, I Should be Writing

  and SF Signal.

Events

Articles

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Deal Breakers.
• Stroppy Author on Putting all our eggs in the digital basket.
• Andrew Wheeler on Hugo Thoughts: The Big One.
• Clarion Blog (Chris Doty) on Spec Tech: Conlanging 4 — Verbs and Basic Clauses.
• Irresistible Targets on Joanna Russ: The Independent Obituary.
• BBC News asks What

  should spaceships look like? [via Paul Di Filippo]

• Sci-Fi Fan Letter reviews The

  Omen (1976).

• Jamie Todd Rubin offers Tips

  for self-publishing from a self-publishing skeptic.

• Marty Halpern on Alien

  Contact Anthology: “The First Contact with the Gorgonids” by Ursula K.

  Le Guin.

• Frederik Pohl on My

  Life as Book Editor for Popular Science.

Art

• Retro

  Future Space Art.

• @CoolVibe: “Smog City” by

  Cristi Balanescu.

More Fun Stuff

• The Shadow

  Bytes – “Finding Patrick”.