SF Tidbits for 8/4/11

Interviews and Profiles

• Locus Roundtable (Karen Burnham) interviews Karen Lord (podcast).
• Writefast! interviews Lauren Beukes.
• The Future and You interviews James Maxey and Stephen Euin Cobb (podcast).
• My Bookish Ways interviews Justin Gustainis.
• Angela Slatter interviews Chris Lynch.
• MTV Geek interviews Daniel Abraham.
• Alt.Fiction Podcast on Mythology with Mark Chadbourn, Adrian Tchaikovsky and K.A. Laity.
• The Qwillery interviews John Hornor Jacobs.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Craig Thompson (video).
• Suvudu (Patrick Rothfuss) interviews Jim Butcher (video).
• BBC News profiles George

  Barris, designer of the Batmobile and the Munster Koach. [via Paul Di Filippo]

News

• Kindle’s

  Free Sci-Fi Mag Hits #1, But Policy Confuses Shoppers.

• Now available: Doctor Who

  fanzine Vworp Vworp! Volume Two.

• Jason

  Sanford’s Never Never Stories Now Available.

• Renovation: Book Drive.

Articles

• The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin reviews Let’s Play White.
• Blackgate (Scott Taylor) on Art of the Genre: Cosplay.
• Janice Hardy on Game On: Staying Organized During Revisions.
• Kirkus Review (John DeNardo) on SF Signal: I, For One, Welcome Our Robot Overlords (Part 2).
• Aliette de Bodard On SF and Simplicity.
• Juliette Wade on Creating the *Feel* of a World.
• Shimmer (Elise) on Of Death and Mermaids.
• Daryl Gregory on Pandemonium,

  the television show.

• Wil Wheaton offers A

  look behind the scenes of the Eureka episode “Up In The Air”.

• Kevin Maher on Jaws

  vs. Shark Night: two kinds of shark movie posters.

• Chris Beckett reviews Red

  Plenty by Francis Spufford.

• Andrew Liptak reviews Spellbound

  by Blake Charlton.

• Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Jessica Strider) reviews Snow

  Queen’s Shadow by Jim C. Hines.

• Dan Goodman reviews A

  Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin.

• Lawrence Person on Library

  Additions: A Heinlein Triad (Including A Heinlein Triad).

Art

• 4

  Sci-fi Illustrations by C. Maystrenko.

• @ItsArtMag: “Beast” by

  alekscg.

More Fun Stuff

• Video: Brent Spiner reveals

  Doctor Who ambitions.

• Alien

  Restroom.