SF Tidbits for 9/2/11
- Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) interviews Mur Lafferty.
- Jildy Sauce interviews Angela Slatter.
- Creatures interviews Gemma Files.
- Angela Slatter interviews Robert Shearman.
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Gabrielle Zevin.
- BoingBoing (Mark Frauenfelder) interviews William Gibson.
- Lightspeed (Erin Stocks) interviews Grzegorz Rutkowski.
- Fantasy (J.T. Glover) interviews Jennifer Mei.
- Vampire Book Club Blood and Other Cravings author roundtable.
- The Secret Lair interviews Adam
Christopher
. - The Idler interviews Wayne Barlowe.
News
- Cheryl Morgan in bowing out
from Clarkesworld, SF Awards Watch, and the boards of the World SF Travel Fund
and the SF&F Translations Awards
. - Gail Carriger
publishes her first self-published short story
. - AMC
Greenlights Secret Stash, Kevin Smith’s Comic Shop Reality Series
. - Orbit eBook Deal: The Rogue
Agent
books 1-3 for $9.99. - The Fall
issue of Subterranean is well underway, with contributions from Mike
Resnick, Catherynne M. Valente, and K.J. Parker
. - Catherynne M. Valente’s new website.
Articles
- Ranker (Brian Gilmore) on The Best Internet Reactions to the Star Wars Blu-Ray Changes.
- Book View Cafe (Nancy Jane Moore) on Did Women Dominate the 2011 SF/F Award Ballots?
- Charlie Stross on Zombies.
- Charles Stross (Harry Connolly) on The rising ebook wave.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Unexpected Gold in Self Help Books.
- Juliette Wade on Convention readings: what to read, and how to get an audience.
- Nathan Bransford On the Internet There Is No Such Thing as a Brand. There Is Only You.
- Kate Griffin on A Brief
History of Time
. - Brian Ruckley on When
Genres Collide (or Merge, or Melt, or Whatever)
. - Carrie Cuinn on Welcome
to the (Functional) Future
. - Michael A. Burstein on Death and
the Superman: A Look at the DC Comics New 52 Reboot
. - Helen Lowe on Supernatural
Underground: Where “Does” Time Go?
- Centauri Dreams on Colonizing the Galaxy Using World
Ships
. [via GravityLens
] - Jonathan Maberry on Zombies.
- Joe Hill on Zombies
(video).
- Comic Vine asks What
Happens if Batman Loses His Confidence?
- GeekOut on I
want my ‘Wonder Woman’ movie
! - Human Events says Some Fantasies Belong On
Film
. - Publishers Weekly on Booksellers
Compile Lists of Their Favorite Books
. - TG Daily on The
sci-fi blockbuster that wasn;t
. - The Book Designer on 19
Ways to Get More Readers for Your Author Blog
. - Library Journal on The
Evolving Book Group: New Formats Mean More Engagement
.
Lists
- GameInformer lists Star
Wars’ 10 Biggest Missteps
. - Publishers Weekly lists 5 Fictional
Diseases in Literature You Don’t Want to be Real
. - Blogomatic lists Top 10
Sexy sci-fi stars
. - Macworld lists Four social-media sites for bookworms.
- Imagination Soup lists 8
Reasons to Let Your Kids Read Comics
. - Sound On Sight lists 10
Surprising TV Takes on Genre Tropes
. - The Ranting Dragon lists Top
20 Steampunk Books – An Introduction to the Genre
. - Jamie Todd Rubin on 11 writers
I always read
. - Discover Magazine lists 10
Things Everyone Should Know About Time
.
Art
- Concept
Ships by John Wallin Liberto
. - Homage Comic Book
Covers
. - Iconic
Images of Superman
. - Mondo
Mystery Poster for Jurassic Park
. - @CoolVibe: “Rabbit
Menace
” by Goncalo Pereira. - @CoolVibe: “Dark Orbit” by
Karakter.
- @CoolVibe: “Mark
13
” by Florian Renner. - @ItsArtMag: “Sandmonster”
by berggreen.
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