SF Tidbits for 10/20/11
- StarShipSofa interviews Tobias Buckell (podcast).
- The Qwillery interviews Bradley
P. Beaulieu
. - SFF World interviews Kevin
J. Anderson
.
News
- Simon
& Schuster gives its authors sales data access
. - Berkley/NAL
to Launch E-book Imprint, InterMix
. - Booksellers
involve superheroes in e-book battle
. - Ben
Aaronovitch – National Book Award nominee
. - Bryan
Singer’s Battlestar Galactica Movie Is Underway
.
Events
Articles
- The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on Why do we love science fiction, fantasy, or horror?
- Janice Hardy on And Pretty Words All in a Row: Tightening Your Narrative Focus.
- Fantasy Matters (N.K. Jemisin) on Beyond Worldbuilding: Cosmobuilding, or, The Power of the Space Hoagie.
- Shimmer (Lisa Hannett) on Hewing Away the Rough Walls (Or, Five Ways to Put Your Story on a Diet).
- Matthew Cheney on A Contribution to VanderMeer Studies.
- Tor.com (Jo Walton) on Cheating Death in SFF.
- Tor.com (Arnie Fenner) on Lovecraft, Asimov, GRRM, Heinlein & More: Painting SFF Writers.
- The A.V. Club on Defending
the Matrix sequels
. - John Scalzi on My
Scifi Film Writing Assignment for You
. - Kevin Bermeister on Time
Travel, Your Mother and the Limits of Science
. - Graham Edwards asks What
scares you?
- John Ginsburg Stevens reviews Embassytown
by China Miéville
. - Jamie Todd Rubin on All
Major Changes…
. - Andrew Liptak on The
Windup Girl
, Revisited. - The Atlantic on How
Zombies and Superheroes Conquered Highbrow Fiction
. - Real Science: New Scientist on Comets
may be creating oceans on alien planet
. - Bryan Thomas Schmidt lists 7
Tips For Being A Good Beta Reader
. - Listverse lists Top 10 Great
One-Sit Reads
. - Maximum PC lists The 34
Best Webcomics for Geeks
. - Heather Massey lists Top Ten Geek
Girl Sites
.
Art
- Gallery:
Dark Lord Conquers Earth in Star Wars: The Complete Vader
. - Concept
ships by Adam Burn
. (Wow!) - Cartoon
Characters All Grown Up
. [via Neatorama] - @A Creative Universe: “Dracula”
by Mark Hammermeister.
- @CoolVibe: “Demon” by Kouji
Tajima.
More Fun Stuff
Umm, Charles, actually that review of Embassytown was from John Ginsburg Stevens 🙂
D’oh! My fault. I just naturally assumed that if it was on the Internet, it was you, Paul. 😉
Thanks for linking to my Geek Girl Sites piece!