SF Tidbits for 8/8/11
- 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
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 LocusRoundtable
] - 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.