SF Tidbits for 9/2/11

Interviews and Profiles

• 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 Gravity

  Lens]

• 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.

More Fun Stuff

• First

  Line Friday: A Handmaid’s Tale.

• Superman On

  Google+.

• Thor loves

  kittens.