SF Tidbits for 8/6/11
Interviews & Profiles
- Suvudu interviews William C. Dietz (Resistance: A Hole in the Sky).
- Angela Slatter interviews Ramsey Campbell.
- Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews T.C. McCarthy (Germline).
- Unshelved interviews John Scalzi (podcast).
- Jim C. Hines’ First Book Friday with Karin Lowachee.
- Terribleminds interviews Adam Christopher (Part Two).
- Cult-Pop interviews Dee Wallace, Danielle Harris and Tony Todd (video).
News
- Tanith Lee’s “Snow-drop” became controversial when its inclusion in a Cairo University fantasy-fiction reading list was denounced, supposedly for the lesbian scene. [via Terri Windling via Ellen Datlow via Ansible]
- Night Shade Books Presents the Cthulhu Summer.
- Nnedi Okorafor Joins World SF Travel Fund Board. (See also: Help Send The Hardest Working Genre Blogger to World Fantasy Convention.)
Events
- The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings presents Keith R.A. DeCandido and Laura Anne Gilman, Tuesday, Tuesday, August 9th, at The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art in NYC.
- As part of the Fantastic Fiction free reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present N.K. Jemisin (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and The Broken Kingdoms) & Andrea Hairston (Redwood, Wildfire and Mindscape) Wednesday August 17th, 7pm at KGB Bar in NYC.
Articles
- Martha Wells on Cultivating Invisibility; Just Some Thoughts.
- Jamie Todd Rubin on In the battle between print and e-books, it is the “work” that comes out the winner and The science fiction magazine e-format boom.
- Kevin Maher on Kevin Geeks Out About: Rise of/Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and APES movie during SHARK WEEK.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Deal Breakers (Continued).
- Blastr lists How Rises messes with Apes canon (and 3 ways we can fix it all).
- John Anealio lists 3 Reasons To Follow Mur Lafferty On Twitter.
Art
- @ItsArtMag: “Quetzacoatl” by yogh.
More Fun Stuff
I’m not feeling the love for Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. Nothing against her as an actress since she’s definitely talented, but to me I’m not seeing the chemistry between her general look and the character.
I mean, think of when Matthew Lillard was cast as Shaggy. That’s the kind of “pitch perfect” casting I crave in these types of films. Not that the Scoob has anything on Nolan’s Batman films, heh heh; it’s just that once in a while an actor comes along that seems to have been born to play a certain part.
Well, we can’t win ’em all.