SF Tidbits for 8/8/11

Interviews and Profiles

• Kaaron Warren profiles Angela Slatter.
• Jonathan Strahan chats with Gary K. Wolfe (podcast).
• Galactic Suburbia episode 38 (podcast).
• Google interviews George R. R. Martin (video).
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Greg van Eekhout (podcast).
• Black Gate (C.S.E. Cooney) interviews Ashley Full Stop Brown.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) profiles Guillermo del Toro.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Wendy W. Benchley and William C. Dietz.
• Suvudu (Kyle Munley) interviews John Stephens (video).
• Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) interviews Patrick Rothfuss (video).
• The Galaxy Express interviews Cathy Pegau.

News

•  Change of KGB reader August 17th.
• ‘Game of Thrones’ Take Top Honors at TCA Awards.

Events

• Win

  $200 by making Scott Edelman’s zombie play into a mini-movie.

• Brenda Cooper/Louise Marley Dual Book Launch: Worldcon (in Reno), Friday, August 19, 8:00pm – 11:00pm at The Atlantis Hotel.

Articles

• Ross Lockhart on Countdown to Cthulhu: Cephalopodcasts.
• Book View Cafe (Laura Anne Gilman) on Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers, week 31.
• Hey, There’s a Dead Guy in the Living Room (Erin Mitchell) on Why We Buy Books.
• Nnedi Okorafor on Nnedi’s Definition of Feminism.
• Janice Hardy on Wait for it, Wait for it–Never mind: Building up and not Following Through.
• Holly Black on Ladies Ladies Ladies.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Shared Worlds SF/F Teen Writing Camp Free Book Frenzy.
• Eric Rosenfield on Reading the History of Popular Literature part 1: The Gothics.
• Tiffany Trent On paracosms: worlds that save.
• Inkpunks (Adam Israel) on A Thousand Words.
• The Guardian (Roz Kaveney) on When a writer’s words have unintended consequences.
• N. K. Jemisin on Considering

  Colonialism. [via Locus

  Roundtable]

• Martha Wells on Favorite

  SF/F Worlds and Cultures.

• Jo Walton on Hugo Nominees:

  1995.

• Jamie Todd Rubin on Vacation

  in the Golden Age, Episode 21: March 1941.

• Ernest Cline on The

  Dukes of Hazzard was a blatant rip-off of Star Wars. And I can prove

  it.

Art

• @CoolVibe: “Space

  Mariner” by Manuel Augusto Dischinger Moura.

• @CoolVibe: “Lab” by Maciej Kuciara.