SF Tidbits for 8/7/11
Interviews & Profiles
- The Creative Penn interviews interviews Tee Morris And Pip Ballantine (video).
- Kindle Post interviews Eric Rabkin.
- Mail Online interviews Doctor Who‘s Matt Smith.
News
- Vonnegut library offers banned book to students.
- Cronenberg’s Jonathan Lethem Adaptation Acquires A Screenwriter. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Two New Stephen King Stories Coming This Fall.
Articles
- NYTimes on The State of Zombie Literature – An Autopsy.
- Heather Massey on Why Underestimating Sci-Fi Romance Heroines Is A Dangerous Thing.
- The Independent (Howard Jacobson) on The best fiction doesn’t need a label.
- The Guardian on Facebook acquires ebook design firm, but should publishers worry?
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews Geoff Ryman.
- Chris Dolley on Reviews: To Read or Not To Read.
- Black Gate on Tall, Long, Deep, and Wide: Weighing Your Books.
- Overthinking It on The Bioethics of The Clone Wars.
- Speculative Faith Five ways that writing contemporary fiction will strengthen your speculative fiction:.
- WhatCulture lists Top 10 Best (and 5 Worst) Superhero Costumes On Film.
- Tor.com lists Haters Gonna Hate: 5 Unfairly Derided Action Sci-Fi Flicks.
- Marvel.com listrs 5 Reasons Why Marvel Fans Should be Psyched for John Carter.
- Booklist Online lists Top 10 Horror Fiction for Youth
Art
- 35 Futuristic Sci-Fi Spaceship Concept Artworks.
- Incredibly Realistic Digital Illustrations.
- That’s No Moon – It’s Art by Tommervik.
- @ItsArtMag: “Poker Poker” by paskal.
- @ItsArtMag: “Wormoids” by sanskarans.
- @CoolVibe: “Seyyah” by Mehmet Ozen.
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