SF Tidbits for 9/8/11

Interviews and Profiles

• Public Radio International interviews Lauren Beukes (podcast).
• The Bat Segundo Show interviews Lauren Beukes (podcast).
• The Outer Alliance interviews Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond (podcast).
• Creatures interviews Joe R. Lansdale.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Merrie Haskell.
• SFFWRTCHT: A Chat With Author S.M. Stirling.
• PJFarmer.com interviews S.M.

  Stirling.

• Flickering Myth interviews Christopher

  Townsend.

• Festa Verlag interviews Jeffrey Thomas.
• Fantasy Magazine (T.J. McIntyre) interviews Megan Arkenberg.
• CultureLab profiles artist Chris

  Foss.

News

• Atomic Fez September Sale-a-bration.
• Solaris READ ANYTHING eBook campaign.
• 2011 Seiun Award Winners.
• Sea

  Lion Books Announces new Graphic Novels.

• Star

  Trek Online goes free to play.

Articles

• Genreville (Rose Fox) on The Offensiveness Grenade.
• Book View Cafe (Shannon Donnelly) on Characters — More Than Real.
• Juliette Wade on A metaphor is worth 1000 (or at least 10) words….
• John Scalzi on Science Fiction and Fantasy Films: The Rest of 2011.
• Shimmer on Five Authors, Five Questions: POV.
• Adam Roberts on Science

  Fiction Picture Books: or, SF for the very young.

• Patrick Hester on Used Books.
• Mark Charan Newton on The Cult Of SF.
• LondonCalling on Out

  of this World: Science Fiction and a Sense of Wonder.

• Subterranean Press on Hamlet’s Father.
• King of Elfland’s 2nd Cousin reviews Blackdog by K. V. Johansen.
• Brit Mandelo on Reading

  Joanna Russ — The Two of Them (1978).

• Jo Walton on C.J.

  Cherryh’s Forty Thousand in Gehenna.

• S.M. Stirling on Alternate

  History at the Personal Level.

• On The Other Side Of The Eye on Lao

  Steampunk: A theoretical approach. [via The

  World SF Blog]

• Space.com asks Why Is Star

  Trek Still Popular?

• Jamie Todd Rubin on Action

  Comics #1: My first real comic book experience.

• Jaym gates reviews Mark

  Charan Newton’s Nights of Villjamur.

• Chuck Wendig on 25 Things You Should Know About Queries, Synopses, Treatments.
• 40kBooks on Trends in Publishing:

  15 People You Should Follow (and Why).

• Octavia Butler and Tananarive Due make this list of 50

  Indispensable African-American Novels.

• HorrorMovies lists 17

  Television Commercials Featuring Zombies.

• Metacritic lists The

  Best and Worst Time Travel Movies.

Art

• @GeekTyrant: “Gotham

  City Sirens” by Alex Garner. [via Eoghann Irving]

More Fun

Stuff

• David Brin Plays the

  Harmonica.

• 1965

  WorldCon now online, with LOTS of photos.

• The

  Evolution of Star Trek(Infographic).